The phrase "two lines of dialogue" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a specific section of dialogue between two characters in a conversation or script. Example: "Mary and John engaged in two lines of dialogue before Mary stormed out of the room in frustration." In this example, "two lines of dialogue" refers to the specific exchange between Mary and John before she left.
So we put the phone up to the speaker and he listens to two lines of dialogue — one or two lines of dialogue, maybe twenty seconds.
Not only did Catherine Scorsese do the actual cooking, he recalled, but they went into it with "about two lines of dialogue written".
Another scene hints at the "Aragornisation" of Bard, who only has one or two lines of dialogue in the book, but it's not nearly as irritating as some of An Unexpected Journey's pointless additions.
It contained two lines of dialogue – "I'll come back" "When?" – and quoted something Zimmer had said a year before, during a long conversation with Nolan and his wife at the Wolseley restaurant in London.
As for the view that "Benefactors" was "too British" in its lexicon and its subject to appeal to an American audience, the New York production omits only two lines of dialogue from the London version and runs about three minutes shorter.
In Darth Maul (performed by the completely underrated Scotsman, Ray Park), the millennium ends with one of the coolest and wickedest celluloid villains ever, an amazing feat considering he's on screen for only 10 minutes and has but two lines of dialogue.
To enhance the point, two lines of dialogue--at different places--are delivered off mic, to strong effect.
By the end of the session, Hale had completed twenty-seven scenes and run through two hundred and twenty lines of dialogue.
Again because of my TV background I've written a million lines of dialogue and trust me I have acted out every single one of them.
There's only about three lines of dialogue in the entire film, so it can hardly have been the standout script.
The quality of writing and voice acting makes this a joy, but it's the way characters can say as much with the curl of a lip as they could with ten lines of dialogue that truly impresses.
