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Tina: I had a strange dream last night.
Jack: Well, dreams are always strange. I've never had an absolutely "normal" dream. So what did you dream about?
Tina: I dreamed about a skyscraper devouring a small "Starbucks"
What do you call a single part of a dialogue that is spoken by one person? (There are three such parts written here: The first and the last one are spoken by Tina, and the middle one is by Jack.)
In acting, these are called lines
lines the words of an actor's part in a play or film. [NOAD]
Normally these are used in plural, but can be used to refer to a single line of dialogue.
You can say lines, in the sense of “the words of an actor's part in a play or film”. Example of use:
the problem with Jack is that, in the love scene with Rob, he couldn't say (or deliver) his lines with enough passion
