Monologue Quotes · Page 2

...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

— Graham Greene

Monologue is the most honest way to represent human beings.

— George Saunders

Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.

— Steven Pinker

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

— Stephen Covey

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

— Stephen Sondheim

My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.

— Norman Lock

I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I don't know of any actor in any television show that I have ever seen who's given monologue after monologue in a…

— Joe Morton

“Dialogue binds me Monologue imposes upon me Soliloquy isolates me   The”

— Édouard Levé

I started by writing, with my partner Ed Simmons, a monologue for Danny Thomas, that he performed at Ciro's nightclub in Los…

— Norman Lear

3/3 A ring? You want to marry me? Here comes another one! Whoa, whoa, aaaaaaah! Youre crazy, Derek! But - Yes! ILL…

— Rachel

To walk into the hall of mirrors of Versailles as Louis XIV and deliver a monologue on your own in an empty…

— George Blagden

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

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

— Viola Davis

I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with…

— Hari Kondabolu

“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had…

— George Orwell

I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I…

— Ray Bolger

I mean, stand up you're by yourself and it's live and when you're acting, unless you're doing a monologue, you're interacting with…

— Bill Burr

I'm sorry, if you've been married for five minutes, you've sacrificed something, you've looked over at your partner and have gone, "Oh…

— Viola Davis

I think that connection with humans is so important. Sometimes I'll do this monologue and talk to the crowd, like, 'Come on,…

— Chet Faker

I loved my second trimester! I didn't feel sick anymore and had more energy. My bloated belly turned into a baby bump,…

— Marisa Miller

Prayer is not a monologue. It speaks to God and to the community. In the last analysis, religion is not what goes…

— David Wolpe

“If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle: I remember The first time ever Caesar…

— William Shakespeare

I love acting with very little dialogue. As long as it's supported. I mean, in terms of cinema, you can have a…

— Nicole Kidman

“Monologue At 3 AM" Better that every fiber crack and fury make head, blood drenching vivid couch, carpet, floor and the snake-figured…

— Sylvia Plath

Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“Men of the cloth live in this monologue, it is their due: nobody talks back to a pulpit.”

— Iain Sinclair

“Everything that begins as comedy ends as a comic monologue, but we aren't laughing anymore.”

— Roberto Bolaño

The monologue is one of the most difficult and interesting forms of theatre for an actor to learn.

— Pratik Gandhi

I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school.

— Josie Loren

“He said that he felt that there was a book hidden between us. Some small thing lodged between a rib or a…

— Mikl Paul

“They say Shakespeare invented the internal monologue." Oh, I am very familiar with the internal monologue.”

— Robin Sloan

When people are watching standup and I come out and I'm a prairie woman doing a monologue about the Oregon Trail, it…

— Cole Escola

“This continuous monologue that seeks to become a dialogue... (Zoltan Galos)”

— ZJ Galos

“Perhaps pondering words is also a form of seeking justice. If a monologue can invite a chorus, then perhaps it can speak…

— Duo Duo

I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in…

— Carson Daly

I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself.

— Eloisa James

I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.

— Karl Kraus

Tallulah was sitting in a group of people, giving the monologue she always thought was conversation.

— Lillian Hellman

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

— Jim Butcher