Christopher Lloyd

Hamlet' was the first movie I saw. In 1948, my mother said, 'I'm going to take you to see 'Hamlet' with Laurence Olivier.' She was worried about taking me to it because she wasn't sure I was old enough to understand it or to maybe be adversely affected by it, but I got recordings of it and memorized all the soliloquies.

American Actor

Renee Elise Goldsberry

One hundred percent, all your Shakespeare training serves you in the work in musical theater today: specifically in modern musical theater, our soliloquies, and now what we call rap. It's the reason it's so easy to learn, because it's verse; it's rhyme! It just sticks in the soul very easily.

American Actress

Marion Cotillard

The first time I saw 'Macbeth' was not the entire play. It was at acting school, and this student was working on Lady Macbeth's soliloquy. I felt something very special, and I knew then that I would one day experience Lady Macbeth, but I always thought it would be on stage and in French.

French Actress

John Sununu

The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of people willing to argue on TV.

American Politician

Kurt Sutter

The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character.

American Director

Ian Doescher

In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the original script and add asides, soliloquys and even new scenes. The main characters all get a soliloquy or two - or in Luke's case, several.

American Writer

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Horrible things happen all our lives; we all experience loss and death and trauma. Usually, most people, I think, we just get on with it. We don't have a whole soliloquy in the middle of something.

Danish Actor

Powers Boothe

When 'Deadwood' came along, it was totally like Shakespeare. The long speeches were like soliloquies. If one phrase of a monologue was out of whack, the entire one-page speech didn't work.

Trevor Nunn

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.

English Director

Steven Zaillian

I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.

In plays, soliloquies are often used to reveal characters' secret thoughts or plans that aren't spoken in dialogue.

Dramatic Reveals

When delivering a soliloquy, the character is usually alone on stage, creating an intimate atmosphere with the audience.

Stage Solitude

Don't confuse a soliloquy with dialogue; it's a solo speech without interaction from other characters.

Not a Dialogue

In modern context, a soliloquy is more like talking to oneself, possibly to sort thoughts or make decisions.

Private Thoughts

Soliloquies are not just theatrical; in writing, characters may express inner dialogues as soliloquies.

Expressive Tool

Soliloquies can be reflective, allowing a character to ponder big questions or comment on the situation.

Reflective Monologues

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