Monologues Quotes · Page 2

What light through yonder window breaks?

— William Shakespeare

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

— George Carlin

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

— Norman Lock

I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.

— Clement Attlee

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

— Margaret Millar

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

— Jay Mohr

People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.

— Stephen Covey

I am the kind of person that wants to get up in front of crowds of strangers and perform monologues. To each…

— Stephanie Beatriz

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

— Molly Shannon

Gertrude's Secret' is highly entertaining. Some of the monologues are very funny, some very surprising and some painful.

— Prunella Scales

To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it.…

— Thomas Jane

I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better…

— Ed Helms

I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell…

— Benito Mussolini

In a late-night monologue, it's not just about being funny; you have to come off as knowledgeable. You have to cultivate a…

— Anthony Jeselnik

I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do…

— Randy Harrison

I did not study science at school until I was 13, when I was totally turned on by a seemingly dreary old…

— Robert Winston

I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you…

— Kunal Nayyar

People often forget our emotional contribution to relationships and to marriage and that might be a completely sexist comment but, what I…

— Viola Davis

For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be…

— George Orwell

[True Detective] is an intense show, even in terms of the dialogue - there's a little rhythm to it, in particular in…

— Michelle Monaghan

Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact…

— William H. Gass

What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the…

— Anonymous

I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may…

— Alice James

The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive,…

— Alan Alda

my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must…

— Andre Dubus

I'm a huge proponent of exchanges, student exchanges, cultural exchanges, university exchanges. We talk a lot about public diplomacy, .. It's extremely…

— Condoleezza Rice

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

— George Plimpton

Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action.

— Sarita Choudhury

[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.

— Whoopi Goldberg

“Tad socked him. Hard. Twice. Someday the bad guys would realize monologues were a bad thing.”

— Vivian Arend

“Our inner monologues have tremendous power over us. They can affect not only our mood, not only our physical bodies,”

— Panache Desai

“Propaganda is where a demagogue plays pedagogue and starts a monologue to leave their audience agog.”

— Stewart Stafford

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

— Denzel Washington

There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.

— Jim Butcher

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses

— Margaret Miller

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

— Chip Esten

The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.

— Michel Foucault

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

— Elfriede Jelinek

The first play that I saw was 'Cyrano,' and I remember going home - I was like nine years old - and…

— Francois Arnaud

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

— Andy Kindler