Monologues Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

  Jeff Daly

  Communication, Two, Language

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

  Jim Fowler

  Jokes

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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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• 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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• I actually did an Agatha Christie monologue for my audition showcase at Guildhall, and that's how I got my agent. Some people said 'ooh it's old hat' and 'too risky'. Some people think she's all about the narrative and thriller aspect at the expense of character and I disagree. I did it anyway and it worked well.

  Thomas Howes

  Character, Thinking, People

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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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• So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.

  Emma Stone

  Talking, Interesting, Work Ethic

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

  James Earl Jones

  Greed, Nausea, Lines

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• Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Thinking, Media, Healthy

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• My brother Trev went to the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, and he used to do his monologues and stuff and rehearse in our apartment. So I used to hear him all the time doing these things over and over and over. And when I was a little girl, I used to soak up everything - like anything anyone did, I soaked it up.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Girl, Art, Brother

  Interview With Drew Barrymore, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 23, 2011.

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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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• Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Disappointment, Drama, Writing

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• The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well.

  Jerry Lewis

  Dream, Men, Stuff

  "Jerry Lewis, the Essence of Comedy" by Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. August 21, 2017.

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• I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes.

  Carson Daly

  Guy, Littles, Lasts

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• Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

  Paul Theroux

  Good Night, Sleep, Player

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It's just part of what you should have, as a woman of color.

  Kerry Washington

  Girl, Color, Should Have

  "Kerry Washington" by Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 09, 2010.

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• I did not study science at school until I was 13, when I was totally turned on by a seemingly dreary old teacher who suddenly, unannounced, manufactured a huge explosion in the middle of a totally boring monologue. From then on, all of his class wanted to make explosions.

  Robert Winston

  Teacher, School, Class

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• The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.

  Kevin Smith

  Long, Culture, World

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