The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
I found out about it probably 9 - 10 months before we shot the film [Don't Kill It] because it was postponed a couple of times, which was actually a good thing because once it all finally came together, I had to get in there and roll off different pages of dialogue and monologues pretty quickly.
[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 always have these little internal monologues. You'll get used to them.
I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.
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.
Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.
I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to be as unreliable as I like.
Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.
Well people love to go dirty and stuff like that. It's funny, because even really dirty things can kind of inspire, but all things inspire really dirty improv and monologues. So then really dirty things can inspire the exact opposite. It's kind of a crapshoot.
I don't need anyone. Because I can do every single thing that a person in a relationship can. Everything. Even zip up my own dress. You know, there are some things that are actually harder to do with two people. Such as monologues.
Two monologues do not make a dialogue.
Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.
This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.
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.
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.
Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.
Sharing my faith is not a monologue, it is a dialogue.
