Jerry Lewis

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.

American Comedian

Chet Faker

I think that connection with humans is so important. Sometimes I'll do this monologue and talk to the crowd, like, 'Come on, let's really connect here.' I don't think a lot of people understand it's a two-way exchange. Some people go to a show and are like, 'Yeah, you make me feel.' That's not how it works.

Australian Musician

Amy Poehler

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 Morin

When self-doubt creeps in, don't ignore it - address it. Respond to harsh self-criticism with something more compassionate. Talk to yourself like a trusted friend and refuse to believe your unrealistic, negative inner monologue.

American Author

Thomas Jane

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.

American Actor

Thomas Perry

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.

German Musician

Zoya Akhtar

You realize you have to become aware of your inner monologue. The things you say to yourself. This raised my consciousness so it was vital to my growth, I would say.

Indian Director

Kevin Smith

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

American Director

Samantha Harvey

Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration.

English Author

Jim Sarbh

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

Indian Actor

Monologues are often dramatic and give insight into a character's thoughts or feelings in plays and films.

Performance Context

During a monologue, other characters are usually silent, focusing all attention on the speaker.

Solo Spotlight

Monologues can express deep emotions, providing a powerful moment in the narrative.

Emotional Depth

In a conversation, a monologue may show a character's dominance or lack of awareness to engage others.

Conversation Dominance

A monologue implies that the speaker does not expect responses or interruptions from listeners.

Lack of Interaction

A monologue might come across as self-centered, as it focuses solely on the speaker's own experiences or opinions.

Personal Narrative

 and what do you want people to feel like when they experience the show?" It's important. When we get that, we move into step the design phase. And I'll give you some little tricks about that, but the design phase is important because we get to make these cool toys. I reach into Lin's brain, he reaches into mine, this monologue becomes a dialogue. And I make these cool toys,

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 I don't know that that would have been my life ambition. But I want to talk a little bit about happiness, and the relationship to this whole vagina journey, because it has been an extraordinary journey that began eight years ago. I think before I did the "Vagina Monologues," I didn't really believe in happiness.

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 Woolf uses interior monologue to contrast the rich world of the mind against her characters' external existences. In her novel "To the Lighthouse," mundane moments, like a dinner party, or losing a necklace trigger psychological revelations in the lives of the Ramsay's,

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 public's imagination until it appeared as a bone-chilling monologue in the film version of jaws about 30 years later but the u.s navy knew about it the day they began pulling those sailors out of the water you have u.s and british naval sailors basically

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 Because, you see, we all get nervous. We all get scared, but it's what you do next that matters. That first feeling isn't the problem. It can be an important sign. The problem comes when we let it derail us. When that internal monologue starts

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 I think it'll be a relief to some people and a disappointment to others that I'm not going to talk about vaginas today. I began "The Vagina Monologues" because I was worried about vaginas. I'm very worried today about this notion, this world,

Eve Ensler: Security and...

 I can walk down the street in the exact same outfit and what the world expects of me and the way I'm treated depends on the arrangement of this piece of cloth. But this isn't going to be another monologue about the hijab

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 many that we've barely even begun to explore but all that are essential to our survival it's the realization that we life is not a human monologue but a wild chorus of microbes fun gee algae

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 if you will, and it's going to come alive. You're going to sort of breathe life into it. We are so used to doing monologues. Filmmakers, for example, are the experts in monologue

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 This monologue personifies Hamlet’s existential being torn between thought and action, unable to choose between life and death. But his endless questioning raises yet another