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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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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Monologue is the most honest way to represent human beings.

George Saunders

Way, Honest, Humans

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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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Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Jeff Daly

Communication, Two, Language

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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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There is a very fine line between listening and stalking.

Jay Baer

Greed, Listening, Nausea

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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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