Quotes About Dramatic Monologue

#1. As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or her every vagrant thought, emotion, and response - the first-person viewpoint grants this privilege and immediacy.

Norman Lock

#2. 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.

Cate Marvin

#3. The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.

Samuel Smiles

#4. I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

Salma Hayek

#5. Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

James C. Collins

#6. Never give in to peer pressure, especially if the peer is not attractive.

Eugene Mirman

#7. A witer's mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.

Leslie Austin

#8. I learned long ago that no matter how much you loathe a past love, some small piece of you will always belong to them.

B.L. Berry

#9. Theatre aside, my penchant for the extended monologue began with my reading of Browning's dramatic monologues, in high school. My inclination to adopt the form for prose was confirmed by Richard Howard's book of dramatic monologues, Untitled Subjects.

Norman Lock

#10. Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances

Robert E.Lee

#11. Man's fear of sexuality is the basis of all horror from the male perspective.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#12. I've been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don't like them, I'll play head games with them to get their minds spinning.

Vince Vaughn