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Monologue
Monologue noun - A (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor.
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- The opening line or monologue of a famous work
Source: Signature Line -
Interestingly, he gets an entire monologue in the original stage play, but the movie cut the monologue and left him with one (slightly altered) line from its opening to say into the mirror—"Certainly my conscience will not serve me to run from this Jew my master."
Source: Mirror Monologue - So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish opens with a word-for-word repeat of that exact same monologue, but instead ends with the line "This is her story."
Source: Chekhov's Gag
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