The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.
Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
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.
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.
Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.
[Having monologue] are talking to somebody even if it's just to yourself, convince yourself if that's what you're trying to do.
I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
When your woman gives you the silent treatment, say you're sorry, or you'll find out how truly sorry you are when her monologue resumes.
The way I teach people to sing. . . I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue.
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.
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.
Training is vital. You need to know the technical aspects of acting, just in case someone hands you a monologue and simply says, 'Cry here and laugh here. ' You have to be able to make sense of it all.
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.
If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.
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 really needed to dramatize and clarify that Rachel was taking strides towards her own healing and her own sobriety - and that she was actually thoroughly frightened about what she may have done. This was something that was so beautifully done in the book [The Girl on the Train] through inner monologue, but I couldn't just have a whole film filled with inner monologues. So going to Alcoholics Anonymous was a very simple solution to that problem.
[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.
Sharing my faith is not a monologue, it is a dialogue.
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness
