Monologues Quotes

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Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language

Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.

Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.

Sharing my faith is not a monologue, it is a dialogue.

I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.

Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.

My thing is, I like playing guys who have a really interesting internal monologue.

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

Monologue is the most honest way to represent human beings.

I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.

'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

A lot of times if you want to get another agent, agents actually make you do monologues in their offices. They still do that! You've got to come up with something!

I do seem to favor a deathbed confession as the occasion for my dramatic monologues.

Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

I had to invest in the love and understand that with the love comes the pain. So when he tells me that, the monologue is already there. Does that make sense?

It's funny that you [Zachary Quinto] did a monologue from Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead. I did the same thing for my university when I went to USC.

I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to be as unreliable as I like.

I consider my comedy to be dramatic comedy. I always wanted music underscoring the dramatic monologue. It was always drama with comedy, in my head.

Monologues, in some ways, are the most scientific descriptions of consciousness and even of gatherings.

I always have these little internal monologues. You'll get used to them.

[Having monologue] are talking to somebody even if it's just to yourself, convince yourself if that's what you're trying to do.

It's tricky with monologues, and I never like to use that word. Like I told the actors, you are talking to somebody; there is no such thing as a monologue.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.

Did you call me here just to deliver this monologue? Did I need to be here?