I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
Quotes about monologues (16 Quotes)
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.
Everything in life can be characterized by its factual and emotional qualities. The Vagina Monologues focus on education, awareness and other factual topics while using emotion to humanize these facts to the audience.
Clearly, Father Jenkins is saying it is absolutely permitted under notions of academic freedom to study 'The Vagina Monologues,' to require a class to read 'The Vagina Monologues' and to perform it in class. We're not clear what would happen if - totally hypothetically - the department of FTT decided to put on a production of 'The Vagina Monologues' as part of the theater season. Would we be able to do it or not
To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.
I like it because it's really funny. It's a bunch of monologues for women, a whole range of age and body image and race as well. It's just hilarious.
I am a big supporter of this charity here called the Women's Care Cottage, so I went to see The Vagina Monologues and loved it. It was funny, it was educational and it was touching.
I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
One of the monologues describes a 16-year-old girl's experience of rape by an older woman as salvation. In light of the sex scandals in the Catholic Church, it is not only insensitive but offensive for a Catholic institution to perform a play that presents rape as healing for the victims.
Cassie always had a unique ability to do more than what's on the page. In monologues and scene work in acting class, she instinctively understood that she had to do more and she was always fearless in doing so. She has a really active imagination and a wonderful sense of humor.
I knew a lot of people would come if there was some controversy, like when we put on 'The Vagina Monologues' two years ago. I thought it would get people thinking about the issue more if they saw this more extreme version of the issue.
Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.
For me, the solution was finally getting away from psychiatric drugs and actually healing my body so I wouldn't have the symptoms that are called mental illness, ... The Vagina Monologues.
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.