Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to…

I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to;…

— Charles Stross

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting…

— Rebel Wilson

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…

— Eva Rubinstein

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

— David Nicholls

The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the…

— Michel Foucault

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

— Whoopi Goldberg

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…

— Norman Lock

There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

— James Earl Jones

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

— Jim Butcher

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

— Norman Lock

The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly…

— Vance Palmer

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

— Clement Attlee

I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to…

— Norman Lock

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to…

— Alain de Botton

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

— Jeff Daly