Top 175 Monologue Quotes & Sayings

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

Monologue is the most honest way to represent human beings.

I have no inner monologue.

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

I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.

I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It's just part of what you should have, as a woman of color.

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

We did monologues and scenes, and New York I did a scene from Amadeus and a monologue from Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead by Eric Bogosian, and then in L.A. I switched the scene to This is Our Youth and did the same monologue. I was spiky-haired, super skinny. A lot of people were like, "You should come here and do a sitcom." That was the feedback that I got. Obviously it was quite a different journey than the one I've actually had, but I just listened to people.

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

In a late-night monologue, it's not just about being funny; you have to come off as knowledgeable. You have to cultivate a persona of trust and intelligence and likeability.

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

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.

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.

If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas.

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.

Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.

The first time I watched [Keith] Olbermann, his opening monologue, I completely changed the way I approached my radio show.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

It's tricky with monologues, and I never like to use that word. Like I told the actors, you are talking to somebody; there is no such thing as a monologue.

The monologue is an interesting space for an actor.

But inside, I'm going, 'Oh my God, is my zipper up? Do I have a booger in my nose?' That's my inner monologue.

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

Prayer is not a monologue. It speaks to God and to the community. In the last analysis, religion is not what goes on inside a soul. It is what goes on in the world, between people, between us and God. To trap faith in a monologue, and pretend that it resides solely inside the self, undermines the true interchange of all belief.

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.

Well my motto was "Never Monologue a Clegane", because Beric Dondarrion and Thoros were messing around with The Hound and Beric essentially got killed, even though he got to come back, and then the monologue is just a foolish thing to do. But it's also psychological state of mind, he can't get over his sister.

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

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

Your whole life doesn't have to be one long, smart monologue.

The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.

Have you seen the film Histoires D'Amérique? It's also a mixture of humor and monologue, and it shows how the Jewish humor comes from drama and tragedy.

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

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

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.

My thing is, I like playing guys who have a really interesting internal monologue.

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

I learned the biggest lesson just watching Ed McMahon, watching him watch Mr. Carson's monologue.

It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.

The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.

Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between writer and reader, an invaluable exchange of human conditions.

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

It's no wonder human beings are so narcissistic. The way our ears are constructed, we can hear only what is right next to us or else the internal monologue inside.

It's funny that you [Zachary Quinto] did a monologue from Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead. I did the same thing for my university when I went to USC.

I had to invest in the love and understand that with the love comes the pain. So when he tells me that, the monologue is already there. Does that make sense?

When you're singing, it can be looked at as a monologue, in a way. If it's about telling a story and connecting with your audience, you can do that through song, through dialogue, or through a monologue. That's what's special about being an entertainer.

In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The what if factor. I tried to write it cinematically and let the dialogue carry it but I forgot about the interior monologue. It's kind of hard to show what's going on in the head. I think we should do it like a documentary.

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

Since I'd developed this fear of not remembering my lines, I took 'Mulholland Drive' as a test for myself. It was a long monologue: no one else speaks.

[Having monologue] are talking to somebody even if it's just to yourself, convince yourself if that's what you're trying to do.

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

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

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

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

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

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

But I really like our experimental, performance and monologue videos, where there's barely jokes in the video, where it's almost a joke in itself that the monologue is even being recorded.

With a monologue, you can be unendingly elliptical.

'The Imitation Game' is a celebration of Alan Turing's life and legacy, and Joan's final monologue is our eulogy. It's the thing we all wished we could have said to him.

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.