Great Dialogue Quotes

#1. I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

Quentin Tarantino

#2. Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.

Max Casella

#3. The only thing better than great dialogue is the ability to say everything with no dialogue at all.

Adam Levenberg

#4. I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.

George Carey

#5. China pays a great deal of attention to the Korean nuclear issue. We stand for achieving denuclearization of the peninsula in a peaceful way through dialogue and consultation to maintain peace and stability of the peninsula and Northeast Asia.

Hu Jintao

#6. Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.

Denis Leary

#7. How's Alison getting on?'

Conway snorted. 'Tucked up in the sick room like she's dying in some season finale. Little fadey voice on her and all. She's having a great old time.

Tana French

#8. I certainly am not a great believer in over-rehearsing between actors, and certainly not doing the dialogue too much.

Clive Owen

#9. You have the hilarity and the great production. These films are distinctive because they are not just topical, they tell good stories and they let scenes play out physically. Apart from the dialogue, the characters also have a non-verbal existence, for example with Scrat.

John Leguizamo

#10. What's great about writing a screenplay is that the subtext of the scene, what is not said, can sometimes be more important that what is said. Again, dialogue serves two basic functions in the scene: Either it moves the story forward or it reveals information about the character.

Syd Field

#11. Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore.

Edith Wharton

#12. Fundamentalism as it is called is not confined to the Muslim world. It is something that we have seen in different parts of the world. Let us hope that a dialogue between the followers of the three great monotheistic religions could help in putting an end to this.

King Hussein I

#13. Stories are great, but at the end of the day, you remember that moment and that moment and that moment. 'The Avengers' had all of this great, giant action, but for all of the clever dialogue, it's the moments.

Jeffrey Bell

#14. As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.

Charlize Theron

#15. The Chinese Government and I myself have always attached great importance to China-U.S. relations. In the new historic era, I look forward to working together with you to continuously strengthen dialogue and exchanges between our two countries.

Hu Jintao

#16. I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.

Nate Lowman

#17. I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.

Adam Baldwin

#18. The Idea of the University, Cardinal John Henry Newman's great work defining how the republic of the mind should be governed, hailed the importance of increasing the breadth of understanding, promoting excellence in scholarship, advancing student dialogue and freedom of expression and inquiry.

Andrew Roberts

#19. There's something great about terrible westerns. They look like gay dancers and bad, overwrought dialogue and overacting, black and white sped up horses.

Alec Sulkin

#20. Every mystery novel I ever read, the great detective was such an arrogant fuck you could replace 70% of his dialogue with 'Are you stupid?' and the conversation would still make sense.

NisiOisiN

#21. If I felt we had alienated the Unionists, it would worry me because we've spent a great deal of time trying to open up discussion and dialogue with the Unionist Parties.

Dick Spring

#22. What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.

Chris O'Dowd

#23. I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.

Zach Woods

#24. When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.

Toni Cade Bambara

#25. Like many older D.C. organizations, Common Cause has had to come a long way both in its use of the Internet and its understanding of the great value of engaging people in a broader online dialogue.

Chellie Pingree

#26. Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to have faith, but must be in search of God all the time, and in the dialogue with others, a Catholic can learn more about God in a deeper fashion.

Pope Benedict XVI

#27. In other words Yates had remembered the lesson of his first great master, Fitzgerald - namely, that people rarely say what they mean, and good dialogue is a matter of catching one's characters "in the very act of giving themselves away.

Blake Bailey

#28. A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.

Rebecca West

#29. Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!

Barbara Stanwyck

#30. In Chestnut Hill money didn't talk, but it drank, and played a lot of golf.

Alistair McHarg

#31. I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.

E. O. Wilson

#32. I can memorize great swathes of dialogue!

Christian Campbell

#33. 'Mystic River' just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.

Clint Eastwood

#34. We oppose occupation of land by force and we believe in dialogue as the method for regaining Arab rights. This is the spirit of the Great Arab Revolt.

King Hussein I