Monologues Quotes
The best sayings about Monologues that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
-
As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or her every vagrant thought, emotion, and response - the first-person viewpoint grants this privilege and immediacy.
→ -
This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.
→ -
Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.
→ -
I don't think I have ever really gotten Leopold Bloom's interior ramblings out of my head! I am sure that voice continues to inspire the walking consciousness in my work - that is, the way I carry on an interior monologue as I walk through this city.
→ -
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; for example, an internal monologue by a locquacious and verbose narrator is more likely to be larded with adverbs than an exchange of instant messages between cops at a crime scene.
→ -
So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.
→ -
Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and history generally, and should be centered on acting in plays rather than just exercises, improvisations, monologues, or even scenes.
→ -
I do seem to favor a deathbed confession as the occasion for my dramatic monologues.
→ -
The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metallic sound of a gramophone.
→ -
Oh, you’re going to die all right. All of you. And for what you’ve done to my brother you will suffer unimaginably! (Kessar) Yada, yada, yada. Am I the only one who gets sick of the bad-guy monologue? ‘Ooo, I’m the big evil. I’m going to kill you all. Just wait while I bore you to tears with my egomaniacal bullshit. I’m just a demon windbag who likes to hear himself speak and I’m trying to intimidate you.' (Kat)
→ -
I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself.
→ -
I learned capacity for self-reflection very early, finding it through interior monologues that books are so good at and that visual media is so bad at because it's so boring - nothing's happening. In a book, you can be inside the narrator's head for 50 pages, and nothing needs to happen. Then you learn to be inside your own head without something needing to happen. It's a very good antidote to a crazy, restless, "what's next?" culture - that you can just be in your own head and nothing is happening except that this is a rich place. I love that.
→ -
When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what I realized was that I don't write inner monologue. I don't want to talk about what somebody is thinking or feeling. I wanted to try to show it in an interesting way. And so what I realized was that I was really writing a screenplay.
→ -
In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)
→ -
While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered between his teeth: 'Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday.' No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now Friday.
→ -
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 somebody else. Even if you're doing a monologue you're saying it to somebody and it's not live so you can do it a few times.
→ -
Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.
→ -
Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy.
→ -
The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.
→ -
People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.
→ -
Maybe Bill Maher should just practice his monologue a few times before the show, so he wouldn't find it so hilarious. But I kid the asshole.
→ -
My thing is, I like playing guys who have a really interesting internal monologue.
→ -
For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage. The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.
→ -
My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.
→ -
I like to think that I differ from other interviewers in the sense that I hide my agenda more successfully, and I'm more open to hearing stuff that is surprising and unexpected. That I'm actually involved in an investigation, through monologue, at times.
→ -
At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
→ -
If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic. Most of all, it ceases to be intimate. It degenerates into a monologue or a mutter. An unreviewed book is a struck bell that gives no resonance. Without reviews, literature would be oddly mute in spite of all those words on all those pages of all those books. Reviewing makes of reading a participant sport, not a spectator sport.
→ -
I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.
→ -
The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well.
→ -
I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to be as unreliable as I like.
→
Top Authors
-
-
-
-
Glenn Howerton Actor -
Grace Gummer Actress -
Gerhard Artist -
Glenn Archer Australian Rules Footballer -
Gerard Straub Author
-
Gordon Dalbey Author -
Grey Owl Author -
Gordon R. England Businessman -
Glenn Branca Composer -
Gunnar Myrdal Economist -
Greg Pak Film director -
Gregg Araki Filmmaker -
Gianluca Vialli Football manager -
Gouverneur Morris Founding Father of the United States -
Glenda Gilmore Historian -
Gerald W. Johnson Journalist
-
Granville Hicks Novelist
-
Giorgio Bassani Novelist -
Gilbere Forte Rapper -
Greg Peterson Rugby Player -
Graham Nash Singer-songwriter -
Gregory Nicotero Special Effects Make-up -
Greg Yaitanes Television Director -
Glenn Thompson U.S. Representative
-
Grace James Writer
-
Gerard De Nerval Writer -
Gordon MacQuarrie Writer
Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Monologues!