Monologues Quotes - Page 5

• I completely understand why a businessman would fire me from 'Saturday Night Live'. Because he was seeing Jay Leno kill 10 minutes a night, doing his monologue with wall-to-wall laughs and applause, then I do 10 minutes a week to, sometimes, breathtaking silence. He's just listening for the laughs.

  Norm MacDonald

  Wall, Night, Fire

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• The first time I watched [Keith] Olbermann, his opening monologue, I completely changed the way I approached my radio show.

  Jay Mohr

  Keith, Radio, Way

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• It's this long monologue [in Valley of Violence] with Ethan Hawke talking about life and everything with a dog. That's not in movies. Hopefully when people think about the movie when they go home, they're like, "That's weird. He's maybe crazy. He's talking to a dog the whole time."

  Ti West

  Dog, Crazy, Home

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Molly Shannon

  Drama, Comedy, Wanted

  Source: collider.com

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• 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?

  Viola Davis

  Pain, Doe, Make Sense

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• 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!

  Julie Halston

  Office, Agents, Want

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I don't think I have ever really gotten Leopold Bloom's interior ramblings out of my head! I am sure that voice continues to inspire the walking consciousness in my work - that is, the way I carry on an interior monologue as I walk through this city.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Thinking, Cities, Voice

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• But along with all of that it was, "Oh, isn't he a great storyteller? Oh, it's that why I married him? Isn't he handsome? Oh, what am I going to make for dinner today?" I put all of that as a part of [Roses's from "Fences"] inner everyday monologue so, by the time he tells he that news and all of that I feel that it's there already.

  Viola Davis

  Rose, Everyday, News

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• 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.

  Zachary Quinto

  Nails, Usc, Foreheads

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  School, Play, Acting

  "‘Jersey Shore’ Star Vinny Guadagnino’s Shakespearean Secret" by Jo Piazza, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2011.

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• I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting clas-ses. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Real, Drama, School

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• Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Book, Writing, Character

  "Maestro of Broadway". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.

  Garrison Keillor

  Friday, Morning, Writing

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• What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over years. It is a monologue trying to become a conversation, an offering, an alibi, a salute.

  Eva Rubinstein

  Dream, Offering, Years

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

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  People, Acting

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• Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

  Terry Pratchett

  Character, Voice, Pages

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction”, p.107, Random House

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• Theatre aside, my penchant for the extended monologue began with my reading of Browning's dramatic monologues, in high school. My inclination to adopt the form for prose was confirmed by Richard Howard's book of dramatic monologues, Untitled Subjects.

  Norman Lock

  Book, Reading, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Norman Lock

  Ideas, Narrators, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• [True Detective] is an intense show, even in terms of the dialogue - there's a little rhythm to it, in particular in his monologues. I think on those days, he [Woody Harrelson] really had to stay in the zone. Because there's a certain cadence in which that character speaks and talks about life, you know? But then there are other days that he was able to be a little more loose.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Character, Thinking, Cadence

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I can be on the Tonight Show, but not with Johnny [Carson]. He uses my name in his monologue all the time.

  Paul Reubens

  Names, Use, Tonight

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Well my motto was "Never Monologue a Clegane", because Beric Dondarrion and Thoros were messing around with The Hound and Beric essentially got killed, even though he got to come back, and then the monologue is just a foolish thing to do. But it's also psychological state of mind, he can't get over his sister.

  Alex Graves

  Mind, Psychological, Foolish

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're singing, it can be looked at as a monologue, in a way. If it's about telling a story and connecting with your audience, you can do that through song, through dialogue, or through a monologue. That's what's special about being an entertainer.

  Naturi Naughton

  Song, Singing, Special

  Source: collider.com

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• Maybe Bill Maher should just practice his monologue a few times before the show, so he wouldn't find it so hilarious. But I kid the asshole.

  Andy Kindler

  Kids, Practice, Bills

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

  Chip Esten

  Country, Song, Heart

  "Interview: Charles Esten of “Nashville” says why he’s fighting for Deacon’s sobriety". Interview with Liane Bonin Starr, uproxx.com. February 6, 2013.

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

  Norman Lock

  Favors, Dramatic, Confession

  Source: therumpus.net

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