Monologues Quotes · Page 3

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

— Stewart Stafford

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

— Panache Desai

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

— Vivian Arend

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

— Whoopi Goldberg

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

— Sarita Choudhury

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

— George Plimpton

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

— Prunella Scales

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

— Molly Shannon

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death…

— Kevin Smith

Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd…

— Ishmael Beah

I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting clas-ses. I do it the real…

— Vinny Guadagnino

Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

One of my favorite actors is Paul Newman. He could tell so much with a single look, whereas some actors would need…

— Ryan Kwanten

So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page…

— Emma Stone

Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but…

— Laura Riding

It's this long monologue [in Valley of Violence] with Ethan Hawke talking about life and everything with a dog. That's not in…

— Ti West

I was applying to the art school, but there was a checklist that said I had to do either production design or…

— James Pearse Connelly

I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener.…

— Barbara Walters

A film, since it is primarily a visual medium, should really be like a silent film. You should be able to watch…

— Tom Ford

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

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

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

— Andre Dubus

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

— Stephanie Beatriz

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

— Norman Lear

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

— Norman Lock

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

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

— George Saunders

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

— Pratik Gandhi

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

— Wendy Moore

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 favorite play is Hamlet. It was my first love when it comes to Shakespeare, and I've read it and seen it…

— Ian Doescher

Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or…

— David Nicholls

It's no wonder human beings are so narcissistic. The way our ears are constructed, we can hear only what is right next…

— Gretel Ehrlich

In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how…

— Anonymous

When you're singing, it can be looked at as a monologue, in a way. If it's about telling a story and connecting…

— Naturi Naughton

As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or…

— Norman Lock