Quotes About Dialogue

Are you up? Dressing? (Astrid) No. I'm pissing on your rug. What do you think I'm doing? (Zarek) I'm blind. For all I know you really are peeing on my rug, which is a very nice rug incidentally, so I hope you're kidding. (Astrid)

Desi, Desi, Desi what am I going to do with you? (Kyrian) Don't you dare take that flippant tone with me! (Desiderius) Why ever not? (Kyrian) Because I am not some scared little Daimon to run cringing from you. I am your worst nightmare. (Desiderius) Must you resort to cliches? C'mon, Desidisastrous, couldn't you think of anything more original than that B-movie dialogue staple? (Kyrian)

Why can't you ever answer a simple question? (Wulf) Ask me a simple question and you will get a simple answer. (Acheron)

Are you two having some sort of strange human thing that you can't follow what I'm saying? (Simi)

Why'd he call you?" – Sundown "My charming personality." – Zarek

Jess! Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! Are you all right? Are you alive? Did I hurt you? Jess? Can you speak?" – Abigail "Yeah, I can talk. But I kind of like the attention you're giving me. You want to grope a little lower, it'd be even better." – Sundown

Where's he shooting from? (Syd) I don't know. You want to go look out the window and tell me the answer? (Steele)

By the way, I have a bone to pick with you. Esperetta Only one? Velkan At the moment. Esperetta Then I can't wait to hear it. Velkan 'Bram' and 'Stoker'? Esperetta It was fitting, I thought. Velkan

The best way to persuade is with your ears.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen. Not just in plays, but in life. And you have to hear what people are saying before you can respond.

It's not enough simply to record the way people actually talk. The dialogue must be concentrated, shaped, dramatically moving, in a way that real-life conversation seldom is.

More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious harmony is one of his urgent priorities in life.

Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.

We learn not for life but for the debating-room.

Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?

Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity.

Also a good director and good dialogue. That's very important because you're bringing the words to life. So it's very important for an actor to have good dialogue.

Sometimes you have to think about what you're going to say, in real life, so when you see that thought process going on in a movie, it feels real and looks real.

You have to talk about the issue of race, but I can talk to white constituents about racism, if I at least acknowledge that life is not a crystal stair for them either.

Bob Woodward, this is Steve Thomas.

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

Does your friend ever say anything?' the fat man asked. Aloom set down the piece of bread he had just rolled round several chunks of meat and gave an exasperated sigh. 'I heard him say oops! once, when he cut the ears off someone who was asking too many questions.

so she let him have the last word. Again.