Dialogue Quotes · Page 3

'Dialogue' is not a dirty word; it's our word.

— Blase J. Cupich

Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.

— Douglas Wood

One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.

— John Wayne

My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

— Stephen King

I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.

— Christina Ricci

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

— Tim O'Reilly

I'm an actor who isn't fond of dialogue and who loves to act silently.

— Francois Cluzet

“Excuse me for a moment, will ye. I think I have to talk to the river,' he said unsteadily and flopped over…

— Ian Livingstone

Leaders don't change their positions mid-debate. They welcome scorn from the masses because it creates the opportunity for dialogue.

— Mark Cuban

“The abyss and the light of the world, Time's need and the craving for eternity, Vision, event, and poetry: Was and is…

— Martin Buber

When you don't have an interruption, there's a flow, so it's easier to memorize. Monologues are easier to memorize than dialogue.

— Sean Hayes

If you want an honest dialogue, you can't criticize someone for what they say. You can't teach someone to think in a…

— Henry Lloyd-Hughes

I believe that our entertainment shapes us and we shape our entertainment, and that ongoing dialogue is a fact of nature.

— Jerrika Hinton

Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.

— Sarah Rees Brennan

If you're not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.

— Karl Lagerfeld

So sometimes it is an outright manipulation like that, but most of the time I'm just, I'm creating a mood that is…

— Carol Friedman

Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take…

— Joshua Foer

“Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another's point of view, but instead were more and more enclosed in our own…

— Eli Pariser

When people ask me about my dialogue, I say, 'Don't you hear people talking?' That's all I do. I hear a certain…

— Elmore Leonard

I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked…

— I. F. Stone

Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre…

— Michel Onfray

The average person doesn't understand what a stem cell is. There's a lack of health literacy in our nation. So the public…

— Richard Carmona

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on…

— Madeleine Albright

["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Women have only had the vote for less than 100 years. Before that, we were wives and essentially kind of property. We…

— Kelly Oxford

Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read…

— Anne Lamott

We also know that the various faith-based institutions provide about 50 per cent of the health and education services in the poor…

— Thoraya Obaid

I do feel that scripts get developed now to a point where they're sort of actor-proof. If the actor is not very…

— Paul Bettany

I tend to start with a kernel, a vague concept, and just begin to write things down - notes about a character,…

— Scott Turow

I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitized and easier screen dialogues, in much…

— Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield

I can hardly believe what these 12 caricatures [about Prophet Muhammad] have caused in the world. We Danes feel like we have…

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

— David Hare

For me, movies should be visual. If you want dialogue, you should read a book.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

All the information you need can be given in dialogue.

— Elmore Leonard

Without dialogue, you cannot run parliament. You have to interact.

— Sharad Pawar

Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying

— Robert Towne

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

— Beyonce Knowles

Cant you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?

— Charles Jencks

I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.

— David Lean