Best 376 quotes in «dialogue quotes» category

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.

I get to be in movies where it's mostly dialogue, and I want to be in something, that for me, feels like kickboxing.

If you want to change a mind, there's no better way than a dialogue over coffee.

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father...

I got into dialogue because my parents began taking me to see plays from when I was very young. Too young, often, to understand the play I was watching: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf when I was nine years old; That Championship Season when I was ten years old. But I loved the sound of dialogue; it sounded like music to me and I wanted to imitate that sound.

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue

I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

I like to read general biology - things about the immune system and advances in that area - because it lays the foundation for my part of the dialogue at the foundation about what things we ought to pursue.

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.

I'm basically talking to the audience, standing alone, describing the weather. It's very rudimentary, the dialogue, saying what the weather is like that day.

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.

I’m self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

In dialogue, individuals gain insights that simply could not be achieved individually.

In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds.

In every movie I do have a dialogue.

In regards to live shows, space is very important to me. Space and context should complement the music in some way; you gain so much from it. It enhances the dialogue between audience and performer. I'm very much aware of this when choosing venues. I say no to 90% of booking offers. Somehow I feel the venue needs to make sense.

I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!

I remain convinced that most human conflicts can be solved through genuine dialogue conducted with a spirit of openness and reconciliation.

Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.

I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue.

It's hard to have a dialogue when you're name-calling.

It's very rare to get a film script that has good dialogue. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting to find out how to say the words.

I’ve always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so dialogue intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.

I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue.

In solitude a dialogue always arises, because even in solitude there are always two.

Let it Ride channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for.

Liberation is an interesting word, because you can be liberated from external things, and also from your internal dialogue.

Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue.

More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers.

Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.

My objective is to build a bridge to a person, to establish a dialogue.

My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

Never forget your dialogue with God, it is your strength.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Never use a verb other than ‘said’ to carry dialogue.

Jihad and the rifle alone. NO negotiations, NO conferences and NO dialogue

One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.

Poetry comes to me out of thin air or out of my unconscious mind. It's sort of the way dreams come to us and the way that we get knowledge from them, through television, old movies, which I watch a lot of. Lines of dialogue suddenly seem to be part of a poem.

Our lives are co-authored in dialogue.

Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.

Propaganda begins when dialogue ends.

President Trump also mentioned that under the right conditions, he is willing to engage in dialogue with North Korea.

Sharing my faith is not a monologue, it is a dialogue.