Monologues Quotes · Page 2

Monologue is the most honest way to represent human beings.

— George Saunders

Sharing my faith is not a monologue, it is a dialogue.

— Greg Laurie

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

— Vivian Arend

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

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

“Managing to overlook his lack of grooming and poor social skills, she was moved by the powerful monologues Day delivered on”

— Wendy Moore

Monologues, in some ways, are the most scientific descriptions of consciousness and even of gatherings.

— George Saunders

I think a lot of people who go to drama school have this ease with the text and they all have five…

— Tavis Smiley

'The Practice' I was on for seven years and it was a law show, so I really - a lot of objections…

— Kelli Williams

You listen to any monologue on late-night TV or just in general, to people talking, and there's always a joke at someone's…

— Ellen DeGeneres

I like to think that I differ from other interviewers in the sense that I hide my agenda more successfully, and I'm…

— Errol Morris

“You are the partner of her loneliness, the unspeaking center of her monologues. With each disclosure you encompass more and she stretches…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I've always been into theater and movies. When I was in school, I did a monologue for my talent show. I would…

— Odeya Rush

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

— Norman Lock

I don't think I have ever really gotten Leopold Bloom's interior ramblings out of my head! I am sure that voice continues…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the…

— Rita Mae Brown

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

Well my motto was "Never Monologue a Clegane", because Beric Dondarrion and Thoros were messing around with The Hound and Beric essentially…

— Alex Graves

I view my stories as sexual or personal. Curiously, I don't. When I was writing those stories I thought of them as…

— Kevin Keck

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

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

— Alan Alda

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

Theatre has given me lot of opportunities such as directing monologues in 'Saat Teri Ekvees.'

— Pratik Gandhi

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

— Norman Lock

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

— Norman Lock

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

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.

— Jean-Luc Godard

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

— Paul Reubens

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

— Rebecca West

It was been an absolute joy being in 'The Vagina Monologues' for so many years. I think the play is truly special.

— Rasika Dugal

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“• Parallel monologues are often what people offer each other when they are in the same place as another but not with another. •”

— Dr. Dennis Cogswell

When your woman gives you the silent treatment, say you're sorry, or you'll find out how truly sorry you are when her…

— Wes Fesler

One-way monologues through the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia don't have much street cred with China's Internet generation, to be…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

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