Dialogue Quotes

If we want to really reduce foreign influence on our elections, then we better think about how to make sure that our political process, our political dialogue is stronger than it's been.

The first thing you have to learn is how to conduct dialogue and how to make it productive.

My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.

Garry Trudeau is the only cartoonist with the clout to get his strip published large enough to accomodate extended dialogue. It's ashame.

I believe in terms of the work that I do, in establishing dialogue about race relations in Latin America, steps on one of the most relevant themes today.

As I get older and I get more of this dialogue and I lose more and more brain cells, it really does become the most difficult part of the job!

Writing dialogue is like writing a song, which I've done.

For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.

In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.

So sometimes it is an outright manipulation like that, but most of the time I'm just, I'm creating a mood that is a place of comfort for the person and a way for our dialogue to be more fluid.

I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.

It is just as important that we enter into a dialogue with China.

Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years.

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.

I can memorize great swathes of dialogue!

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

I certainly am not a great believer in over-rehearsing between actors, and certainly not doing the dialogue too much.

I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue.

I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.

I didn't understand how funny this play Much Ado About Nothing truly was until I became an English teacher and had to teach it. There is no wittier dialogue anywhere.

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father...

When you translate the American writers who are best with dialogue into German - someone like Elmore Leonard, or Tom Wolfe, who's also quite good with dialogue. It's very hard to translate them well.

Also, whenever you have direct speech, and I don't quite know why, but it always gets better in English. Dialogue, the flow of dialogue, English just has a better way with it.

I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.

Nothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me.

Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

Every cell is eavesdropping on your internal dialogue.

Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

Folks, Russia is perhaps the second most powerful nuclear country in the world. If you don't have dialogue, you have to be fools.

Trust your actors. That's why I work with the same actors time and time again. I encourage them to change the dialogue to achieve one thing: keep the characters honest.

Never use a verb other than ‘said’ to carry dialogue.

As an investigative reporter, I'm trying to uncover things and expose them to create a dialogue.

Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't know but the other character does know.

With music, I wasn't curious anymore. There was no dialogue. By the time I stopped, I knew it wasn't going to be gone forever, but it just wasn't the right time for me to care about that.

I'm definitely more of a 'think game' kind of girl. I'll read every single dialogue and codex entry and lore entry. I really do love projecting myself and creating my character.

I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I'm not Shakespeare. It's not designed to be poetic.

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

I think we're approaching an era where there's a consistent dialogue going on between artists and consumers. And I think that's going to be part of the solution to actually selling music.

Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit.

In solitude a dialogue always arises, because even in solitude there are always two.

The dialogue between women is a rich field, but change does not come without a lot of reading, asking, listening, risk-taking and hard work.