Monologue Quotes

• 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.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Discovered
  • Bride
  • Monologue

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

  

  Eloisa James
  • Realize
  • Response
  • Monologue

• I did not study science at school until I was 13, when I was totally turned on by a seemingly dreary old teacher who suddenly, unannounced, manufactured a huge explosion in the middle of a totally boring monologue. From then on, all of his class wanted to make explosions.

  

  Robert Winston
  • Boring
  • Explosions
  • Seemingly

• I love acting with very little dialogue. As long as it's supported. I mean, in terms of cinema, you can have a great monologue, but if you're not supported by the images ... You can be feeling things and then you see it back, and you're like, "None of that came across." Or the angle of my face gives it a completely different interpretation than what I was trying to communicate.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • I Love
  • Communicate
  • Images

• I completely understand why a businessman would fire me from 'Saturday Night Live'. Because he was seeing Jay Leno kill 10 minutes a night, doing his monologue with wall-to-wall laughs and applause, then I do 10 minutes a week to, sometimes, breathtaking silence. He's just listening for the laughs.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Night
  • Businessman
  • Laughs

• Monologue is the most honest way to represent human beings.

  

  George Saunders
  • Human
  • Represent
  • Monologue

• You have Cameron Crowe write an incredible monologue for you just based on the things that you're talking about. It just became this opportunity that was too exciting a process to pass up.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Opportunity
  • Pass
  • Monologue

• If you're a musician, you can practice your guitar every day and write songs, but when you're an actor, you can't just like burst into a monologue. Your only exercise is when you're in prep or you're working.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Songs
  • Guitar
  • Musician

• What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over years. It is a monologue trying to become a conversation, an offering, an alibi, a salute.

  

  Eva Rubinstein
  • Dream
  • Conversation
  • Photograph

• I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I danced off. I've been dancing ever since, but I'm still a comedian.

  

  Ray Bolger
  • Dancing
  • Comedian
  • Since