Monologue

"Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd recite them. And just like hip-hop, it made you feel like you knew how to speak English really well. You had a mastery of the English language to some extent."

"I am the kind of person that wants to get up in front of crowds of strangers and perform monologues. To each their own."

"Monologue, in literature and drama, is an extended speech by one person. The term has several closely related meanings. A dramatic monologue is any speech of some duration addressed by a character to a second person. A soliloquy is a type of monologue in which a character directly addresses an audience or speaks his thoughts aloud while alone or while the other actors keep silent. In fictional literature, an interior monologue is a type of monologue that exhibits the thoughts, feelings, and associations passing through a character’s mind."

"A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet."

"'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about story telling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues."

"A monologue can never be the whole story of a particular drama. It is always just one character's point of view at an isolated moment in the action...Perhaps the only and best bit of direction to leave you with when doing a monologue is to feel the need to speak, know what you are speaking about and to whom, and the words will connect with what you have to say."

"...a monologue, which is a lengthy speech. Unlike a soliloquy, however, a monologue is addressed to other characters, not to the audience."

"...to be a dramatic monologue a poem must have a speaker and an implied auditor, and that the reader often perceives a gap between what that speaker says and what he or she actually reveals."

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

"Monologue and dialogue are two basic aspects of the semantic organization of an utterance and at the same time two mutually opposed forms of a linguistic structure in the functional sense; therefore, linguistics often speaks about monoligic and diologic speech."

"The obvious mechanical convenience of monologues in general, quite apart from link Monologues, is their availability in filling time. On the whole the link monologue is less widely employed for this purpose than the entrance monologues."

"In role based stories Monologues are role based stories addressed to imaginary and/or actual listneres (on stage and in the audience)"

"Monologues, in which one person does all the talking, are longer speeches than participants have expressed so far. This does not mean that a monologue expresses only one point of view, its interest lies in the variety of perspectives that the speaker may present as part of the argument. Monologues are valuable components in the devising process and can serve as introduction, reflections and/or as links between scenes."

"Although monologues are solo-voiced, in their theatrical representation there is a need for a more dialogical reality , with a real or imaginary “listener” to whom monologue is directed. In this kind of work, monologue is not the product of one person alone, but is processed and shaped within and by the group, which is a political act in itself."

"A monologue is a speech made by a character to other characters, sometimes to a crowd. It is not a dialogue, where two or more people are in conversation with each other. Shakespeare’s plays are full of monologues. Among the most famous are Henry V’s ‘Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more’ speech, where the king is leading his troops into battle, and Marc Antony’s ‘Friends, Romans and countrymen, lend me your ears’ speech in Julius Caesar, where Antony is addressing the Roman crowd after the assassination of Caesar."

"Mercutio. O, then I see Queen Mab hat been with you. She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman. Drawn with a team of little atomies, Over men’s noses as they lie asleep: Her wagon spokes made of long spinners’ legs, The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers: Her traces, of the smallest spider web; Her collars, of the moonshine’s wat’ry beam; Her whip, of cricket’s bone; the lash, of film; Her wagoner, a small gray-coated gnat. Not half so big as a round little worm Pricked from the lazy finger of a maid; Her chariot is an empty hazelnut…"

"PRINCE. Rebellious subject, enemies to peace, Profaners of this neighbor-stained steel—, Will they not hear? What, ho! You men, you beasts, , That quench the fire of your pernicious rage, With purple fountains issuing from your veins! . . ."

"I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating."

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