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.
Truman Capote
Life is a B Movie: it`s stupid and it`s strange, it`s a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the `he said she said` sometimes there`s some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally.
Ani DiFranco
[during filming of Star Wars (1977)]: Apart from the money, I regret having embarked on the film. I like them well enough, but it`s not an acting job, the dialogue - which is lamentable - keeps being changed and only slightly improved, and I find myself o...
Alec Guinness
I am always ashamed of the slowness of my reading. I think it stems from the fact that when I come across dialogue in a novel, I can`t resist treating it as the text of a play and acting it out, with significant pauses and all.
Alec Guinness
[on Rudolf Valentino] That Valentino was certainly a very splendid fellow. And his unique glamor was not entirely due to the fact that he was unhampered by banal dialogue. Modern dialogue is not always banal, and the screen hero who could match Valentino`...
James Mason
[on Rudolf Valentino] That Valentino was certainly a very splendid fellow. And his unique glamor was not entirely due to the fact that he was unhampered by banal dialogue. Modern dialogue is not always banal, and the screen hero who could match Valentino`...
James Mason
(On performing period-drama dialogue) "I mean, you try to make it as real as possible but when you have lines like `The fallen eagle is Caesar; the vulture Octavius, and there is one, yet to be decided, who will betray them all`. And you`re just like, `Gr...
Emily Blunt
[On why he didn`t read the complete play of "Othello" before acting in the film version in which more than half of the dialogue was cut:] "Why should I read all those words that I`m not going to get to say?"
Laurence Fishburne
Good dialogue simply isn`t enough to explain all the infinite gradations of a character. It`s behavior -- it`s what`s going on behind the lines.
Montgomery Clift
[on improvising dialogue as Scott Evil in scenes with Mike Myers in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997):] "[Dr. Evil`s] whole shhh! thing was made up on the spot. It`s a testament to Mike Myers` brilliance. They just keep going after the wr...
Seth Green
[The Pillow Book] The film has written and spoken dialogue in twenty-five languages - English, French, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Latin, Hebrew, necrotic Egyptian ... and it has written calligraphic text on paper, wood, and flesh, on flat ...
Peter Greenaway
Oh every day I fight for the integrity of the character and where I want it to go. Sometimes I think the writers are better at writing story than dialogue, or maybe I just understand the character better than they do. But they do allow us to collaborate. ...
George Eads
It`s one of those invented things. I spend a lot of time in Germany so it`s in my head. I didn`t feel the need to go to a dialogue coach and be very strict with it because that`s not in the spirit of how it should be approached. My take was that it should...
Willem Dafoe
There`s nothing wrong with being an actor, if that`s what a man wants. But there`s everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue."
Sterling Hayden
I had six seasons of playing the eldest son on that show. Six seasons of feeling like a damned idiot, going around -- me, like a middle-aged teenager, saying, `Yes, Pa,` `No, Pa` on cue. It was downright disgusting -- such dialogue for a grown man. I felt...
Pernell Roberts
[on Shirley Temple] She was a nice kid, with a really wonderful mother and father. We all liked her. But she was brilliant. She knew everyone`s dialogue and, if you forgot a line, she gave it to you. We all hated her for that.
Alice Faye
[on the making of Highlander (1986)] For the scene we did in the church there could have been a wonderful dialogue - "God, this doesn`t compare to the Greek Orthodox Church," or "I liked it better when they did it in Latin," or any type of thing. There`s ...
Clancy Brown
When I see films that go on and on with dialogue, I feel like telling the actors, "Be quiet! Let the audience do some of the work!" (from a 1975 interview with Bob Thomas, Canadian Press)
Glenn Ford
[On his screenwriting] "I always write from an actor`s perspective, which is writing dialogue that fits comfortably into one`s mouth, as opposed to dialogue that is strained and defective."
Tim Robbins
[On his screenwriting] "I always write from an actor`s perspective, which is writing dialogue that fits comfortably into one`s mouth, as opposed to dialogue that is strained and defective."
Tim Robbins
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
You go back to those films of the `40s and `50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we`ve really lost that in movies.
Clive Owen
With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
Gay Talese
While his task as president was at times marked by great challenges, his efforts to engage in a dialogue with his neighbors, as well as his accessibility to the leaders in the community, made those challenging times all the more manageable,
Michael Ross
When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight.
Camryn Manheim
A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.
Cornel West
