Quotes About Dialogue

As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

Id like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.

Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!

The youth say stupid things and they say good things, as we do, as everyone does. But hear them, speak with them, because we must learn from them and they must learn from me, from us.

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

Good words are better than bad strokes.

No good ever came from not talking.

The United Nations is an organizational body where people, through their Governments, come together; and it can be the only place where there can be a melting pot.

There is a need for more effective dialogue... between the government and the international community.

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.

Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people even if you (or they) are angry.

I have always felt that the only great thing about an interview is the questions that are asked.

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

All communication is a sign of failure. If everybody is pleased with the situation, then there is no need for communication.

Health care is at the beginning of a dialogue with the world... as health care providers, we have to ask ourselves this question: What stories are we not hearing?

History is an argument without end.

If you don't learn about each other, you do not understand each other, and you don't hide warts and all, both sides, then you're forever going to repeat history.

Design is a vital component to the enrichment of our everyday lives. Japan has a very rich history and culture of design, and I feel it is a very important dialogue to open and keep evolving.

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.

Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.

The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.