Monologues Quotes

• People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.

  Gillian Flynn

  Talking, People, Lips

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.137, Crown

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• Monologue is the most honest way to represent human beings.

  George Saunders

  Way, Honest, Humans

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• 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.

  Denzel Washington

  Talking, Use, Actors

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• What light through yonder window breaks?

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic, Light

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1

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• I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey, not the arrival; in conversation, not monologues; in multiple questions rather than any single answer. I believe in the struggle to remake ourselves and challenge each other in the spirit of eternal forgiveness, in the awareness that none of us knows for sure what happiness truly is, but each of us knows the imperative to keep searching. I believe in the possibility of surprising joy, of serenity through pain, of homecoming through exile.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Pain, Believe, Struggle

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• 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.

  Sally Field

  Kids, Cutting, Play

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• 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.

  Thomas Jane

  Character, Kissing, Actors

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• It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.

  Amy Jo Martin

  Media, People, Television

  "Shaq's Social Media Guru Shares Her Secrets". Interview with Sam Laird, mashable.com. December 1, 2011.

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

  Rebecca West

  Communication, Language, Illusion

  The Harsh Voice "There Is No Conversation" (1935)

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• There is a very fine line between listening and stalking.

  Jay Baer

  Greed, Listening, Nausea

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• Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

  Jeff Daly

  Communication, Two, Language

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• Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Notebook, Trying, Cameras

  Jean Luc Godard (1967). “Le Petit soldat: screenplay”

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• The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.

  Azealia Banks

  Rap, Scripts, Beats

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 11, 2012.

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

  Carol Shields

  Novel, My Own, Unrelenting

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• There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

  James Earl Jones

  Greed, Nausea, Lines

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

  Lennie James

  Interesting, Guy, Internals

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

  Truman Capote

  Communication, Intelligent, Talking

  "Leadership Divided: What Emerging Leaders Need and What You Might Be Missing". Book by Ron A. Carucci, September 30, 2006.

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

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Prayer, Interiors

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• If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas.

  Thomas Perry

  Writing, Character, Sight

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• The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue.

  Margaret Whiting

  Believe, People, Sound

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• In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

  Woody Harrelson

  Play, Actors, Lines

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• My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

  George Plimpton

  Relationship, Book, Stories

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

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Play, Long, Language

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

  Jim Fowler

  Jokes

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• I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.

  Randy Harrison

  Summer, College, Casting

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