#monologues

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#long #made #monologues #plays #prose

Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#carson #his #johnny #johnny carson #jokes

To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character. ↗

— Thomas Jane

#audience #character #death #i #into

... The desecration of women indicated the failure of human beings to honor and protect life and that this failing would, if we did not correct it, be the end of us all. p. xxxii ↗

— Eve Ensler

#life

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

— Rebecca West

#illusion #monologues #such #thing

I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent. ↗

— Randy Harrison

#agents #been #casting #casting directors #college

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. ↗

— Margaret Millar

#delivered #monologues #most #presence #simply

Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#actually #always #character #class #come

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. ↗

— Emma Stone

#acting #anyway #before #camera #ethic

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did. ↗

— Sally Field

#cut #dialogue #did #felt #i