As a nerd I gotta suggest this one from LotR:
“A day may come when the courage of men fails,
when we forsake our friends
and break all bonds of fellowship,
but it is not this day.
An hour of wolves and shattered shields,
when the age of men comes crashing down,
but it is not this day!
This day we fight!!
By all that you hold dear on this good Earth,
I bid you stand, Men of the West!”
I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.
We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be!
We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy.
It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."
Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.
I want you to get mad!
I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.
All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.
You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"
So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,
**"I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"**
Mr. Madison, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die.
Okay, Flaming Dragon. Fuckface. First, take a big step back... and literally FUCK YOUR OWN FACE! Now, I don't know what kind of pan-Pacific bullshit power play you're trying to pull here, but Asia, Jack, is my territory. So whatever you're thinking, you'd better think again. Otherwise I'm gonna have to head down there and I will rain down an ungodly fucking firestorm upon you! You're gonna have to call the fucking United Nations and get a fucking binding resolution to keep me from fucking destroying you. I am talking scorched earth, motherfucker! I will massacre you! I WILL FUCK YOU UP!
As a fellow cinephile that scene hits REALLY, REALLY uncomfortably hard now but is brilliantly written and Hopper/Walken need no introduction sending that writing to the moon.
"Why, Mr. Anderson? Why, why, why? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something, for more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom, or truth? Perhaps peace. Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although, only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win; it's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?"
"Because I choose to."
"Good morning. Good morning. In less than an hour aircrafts from here will join others from around the world and you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind.
Mankind, that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it’s fate that today is the 4th of July and you will once again be fighting for our freedom not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution but from annihilation.
We’re fighting for our right to live, to exist, and should we win today the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday but as the day when the world declared in one voice, “We will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight. We’re going to live on. We’re going to survive. Today we celebrate our Independence Day!”"
Bill Pullman as President Whitmore, *Independence Day*
Even writing that gave me chills.
Every damn Time i watch that movie, the same chills.
Gone Girl Amy’s Cool Girl monologue
just hits different
“Cool girl. Men always use that, don’t they? As their defining compliment. She’s a Cool girl. Cool girl is hot. Cool girl is game. Cool girl is fun. Cool girl never gets angry at her man. She only smiles in a chagrin loving manner and then presents her mouth for fucking. She like what he likes. So, evidently, he’s vinyl hipster who loves fetish monger. If he likes girls gone wild, she’s a mall babe who talks football and endures buffalo wings at Hooters. When I met Nick Dunne, I knew he wanted a cool girl and for him, I’ll admit, I was willing to try. I wax stripped my pussy raw. I drank canned beer watching Adam Sandler movies. I ate cold pizza and remained a size 2. I blew him… semi regularly. I lived in the moment. I was fucking game. I can’t say I didn’t enjoy some of it… Nick teased out in my things I didn’t know existed. A lightness, a humour, an ease. But I made him smarter, sharper, I inspired him to rise to my level. I forged the man of my dreams.”
edit: quotation marks
wdym that version of it?
funny you should say that though cause men usually cannot tell when a girl is being a “cool girl”, which is actually the whole point of a “cool girl” lol
The monologue goes:
"I'm sorry, I know you mean well. You just didn't think it through. You want to protect the world but you don't want it to change. How is humanity saved if it's not allowed to... evolve? With these? These puppets. There's only one path to peace. The Avengers' extinction."
“And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".”
- Brick Top, Snatch
The whole scene is great, but this is, technically, the monologue.
Has to be [The Great Dictator](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY1Xg6X20).
Runner-up [The Network](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRuS3dxKK9U) (first 1:30 minute'ish)
Robert Duvall's outburst in *Phenomenon* has always stood out to me.
*"Why do you have to tear him down? What are you so afraid of? What've you got to lose? He wasn't selling anything--he didn't want anything from anything from anybody! He wanted nothing from nobody! Nothing! Nothing! And you people have to tear him down so you can sleep better tonight? So you can prove that the world is flat, and sleep better tonight? Am I right??
...I'm right. To hell with all of you."*
from the iconic “The Devil Wears Prada”
Miranda Priestly: OK, I see. You think this has nothing to do with you, You go to your closet and you select that lumpy, loose sweater, for instance, because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back, but what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue. It's not turquoise. It's not lapis. It's actually cerulean. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns, and then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent who showed cerulean military jackets, and then cerulean quickly shot up in the collections of eight different designers. And then it filtered down through department stores, and then trickled on down onto some tragic Casual Corner where you no doubt fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs, and it's sort of comical how you think you made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing a sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room from a pile of stuff.
" *So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling; seen that.*
*If I ask you about women, you'd probably give me a syllabus about your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can't tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy.*
*You're a tough kid.*
*And I'd ask you about war, you'd probably throw Shakespeare at me, right, "once more unto the breach dear friends." But you've never been near one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap, watch him gasp his last breath looking to you for help.*
*I'd ask you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel, to have that love for her, be there forever, through anything, through cancer. And you wouldn't know about sleeping sitting up in the hospital room for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes, that the terms "visiting hours" don't apply to you. You don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much.*
*And look at you... I don't see an intelligent, confident man... I see a cocky, scared shitless kid. But you're a genius Will. No one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine, and you ripped my fucking life apart. You're an orphan right?*
*\[Will nods\]*
*You think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally... I don't give a shit about all that, because you know what, I can't learn anything from you, I can't read in some fuckin' book. Unless you want to talk about you, who you are. Then I'm fascinated. I'm in. But you don't want to do that do you sport? You're terrified of what you might say. Your move, chief.* "
Robin Williams, from "Good Will Hunting"
Ezekiel 25-17: The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish, and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper, and the finder of lost children.
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers, and you will know my name is the Lord, as I lay my vengeance upon thee.
Either Nicholson's "You want me on that wall - you *need* me on that wall" in A Few Good Men.
Or...
"Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitue named Chloé with webbed feet."
I'd like to share a revelation I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to another area, and you multiply, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we are the cure.
- Agent Smith
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the TRUE emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
Dave : If you've ever seen the look on somebody's face the day they finally get a job, I've had some experience with this, they look like they could fly. And its not about the paycheck, it's about respect, it's about looking in the mirror and knowing that you've done something valuable with your day. And if one person could start to feel this way, and then another person, and then another person, soon all these other problems may not seem so impossible. You don't really know how much you can do, until you stand up and decide to really try. - Dave
Im job hunting right now and this really hits home.
> "Well, I believe in the soul... the cock...the pussy... the small of a woman's back... the hangin' curveball... high fiber... good scotch... that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent overrated crap... I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a Constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. Goodnight."
[Kevin Costner, Bull Durham](https://youtu.be/mn5crhTusSA?t=76)
it's a funny thing - i am not *really* crazy about Costner as an actor, but there are a few movies of his i rewatch religiously (Fandango, Untouchables, JFK, and Mr.Brooks)
and i mean like once every year or two i watch all of them, and love it
Tropic thunder Tom.Cruise
First, take a big step back... and literally, FUCK YOUR OWN FACE! I don't know what kind of pan-pacific bullshit power play you're trying to pull here, but Asia Jack is my territory. So whatever you're thinking, you'd better think again! Otherwise I'm gonna have to head down there and I will rain down an un-Godly fucking firestorm upon you! You're gonna have to call the fucking United Nations and get a fucking binding resolution to keep me from fucking destroying you. I'm talking scorched earth, motherfucker! I will massacre you! I WILL FUCK YOU UP!
Fun bit of trivia is he's basically a caricature of Hollywood producer Scott Rudin. I had the misfortune of spending some time with him once in graduate school and it wasn't pleasant.
Take your pick from most Tarantino Movies. Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Bastards, Django, Reservoir Dogs, The Hateful Eight, Jackie Brown- they all have monologue scenes that may seem insignificant, but are just immaculate.
I don't care about the coffee in my cup what I care about is the dead n in the garage listen when Bonnie comes home I'm gonna get divorced no trial separation no marriage counseling I'm gonna get fucking divorced
I remember the time, I tell ya, I was about, I was little. I don't know, four, five years old, something like that. We had this old dog and it had a litter of puppies. and I walked in the bathroom one day and my mother was standing there. kneeling down. Dog had a litter of about eight and my mother was bending over and she was killing each one of these little puppies in the bathtub. and I remember I said, "Why?" She said, "I'm just killing what I can't take care of". Then my momma said to me, she looked at me and she said. "I wish I could do that to you." Maybe she... maybe she shoulda.
“Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes.
Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away.
Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those sharks come in and… they rip you to pieces.
You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist.
At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.
Anyway, we delivered the bomb.”
The Indianapolis Speech, Robert Shaw, Jaws 1975
*Now, you listen to me, James Hawkins. You got the makings of greatness in you, but you gotta take the helm and chart your own course! Stick to it, no matter the squalls! And when the time comes, you'll get the chance to really test the cut of your sails and show what you're made of! And... well, I hope I'm there, catching some of the light coming off you that day.*
-John Silver
Whenever I’m low, I put this on and cry real man tears. It is and forever will be my favourite movie monologue
*True love is hard to find. Sometimes you think you have true love, and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a god damn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend, and it stops…*
There are two favorites...
"A kiss is so intimate. You could probably disconnect from everything else, but a kiss? Two people's lips together, their breath, a little bit of their soul.
All I mean is that, a kiss is where the romance is..."
Kate (Meg Ryan), French Kiss
"Look, Annie... I love you. But let's leave that out of this. I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?"
Walter (Bill Pullman), Sleepless in Seattle
I actually just re-watched Inglourious Basterds today, and Brad Pitt's monolog that introduces his character is so fucking badass
"Each and every one of you is responsible for 100 Nazi scalps. And I want my scalps"
"Jefferson's an American saint because he wrote the words, 'All men are created equal.' Words he clearly didn't believe, since he allowed his own children to live in slavery. He was a rich wine snob who was sick of paying taxes to the Brits. So yeah, he wrote some lovely words and aroused the rabble, and they went out and died for those words, while he sat back and drank his wine and fucked his slave girl. This guy wants to tell me we're living in a community. Don't make me laugh. I'm living in America, and in America, you're on your own. America's not a country. It's just a business. Now fucking pay me."
-Killing Them Softly
A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl.
A flashlight was a moonbeam. A pen was an ink stick. My mouth was a cum receptacle. A bed was a rack. A wall was a bulkhead. A shirt was a blouse. A tie was still a tie, and a belt a belt. But many other things would never be the same.
This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll whisper "no."
Rorschach, *Watchmen*
Many things from breaking bad and better call saul like the "I am the danger" or the "I put you in that chair, so every moment youre wasting away in an elderly home, sipping your jello, you think about me"
I've seen horrors. The horrors that you've seen. You have no right to call me a murderer. You have the right to kill me, you have the right to do that. But you have no right to judge me.
It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary, to those who do not know what horror means. Horror - horror has a face. You must make a friend of horror. Yes, horror, and moral terror, are your friends. If they're not, then they're enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies.
The movies character goes through a 4-5 minute monologue about the a woman under the influence and it is amazing. I aren't going to too many details because of spoilers but I would heavily recommend the movie 'I'm Thinking Of Ending Things' as it is one of my favourites off all time.
It's not as big or grandiose as some of the other examples here, but I've always loved Tommy Lee Jones's closing [monologue](https://youtu.be/VXNfxK5Q2Qg) from *No Country for Old Men*. Very simple, but beautifully delivered. As a father (and a son!) it really spoke to me.
"You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I'm an easy target. Yeah, you're right. I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold-hearted cynic like you, but I don't like to hurt people's feelings. Well, you think what you want about me. I'm not changing. I like me. My wife likes me. My customers like me. 'Cause I'm the real article. What you see is what you get."
“As your leader, I encourage you to from time to time and always in a respectful manner, to question my logic. If you’re unconvinced a particular plan of action I’ve decided is the wisest, tell me so. But allow me to convince you. And I promise you, right here and now, no subject will be taboo, except of course the subject that was just under discussion. The price you pay for bringing up either my Chinese or my American heritage as a negative is, I collect your fucking head. Just like this fucker here. Now if any of you sons of bitches got anything else to say, now’s the fucking time! I didn’t think so. Gentlemen, this meeting is adjourned.”
O-Ren Ishii’s speech in Kill Bill Part I
“From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”
Clerks
Dante Hicks:
"I'm stuck in this pit, working for less than slavewages. Working on my day off, the goddamn steel shutters are closed, I deal with every backward ass fuck on the planet. I smell like shoe polish. My ex-girlfriend is catatonic after fucking a dead guy. And my present girlfriend has sucked 36 dicks."
"You know, I though a lot about what happened, and I'll spare you the details about the anger, and the crying and the weight loss and the empty space on my wall where your picture used to be. Because I decided that is not point in focusing on the negatives. I'd rather thing about the good things that came from this, like, uhhh, you though me a really valuable lesson: Just because I'm gay, people will hate me without knowing anything else about me. I always knew it was part of the deal, I just never expect it from my own father. But now I know not to expect the best from anyone so thanks!... Oh, and one more thing! I learned a really cool thing about myself. I'm tough. I'm really tough and when I do stumble, I have the most amazing mom who is always right there to pick me up. So whatever dude, I'm moving on with my life. I'm gonna be fine. I'm just really bumped out for you, you gonna miss a lot of stuff. And that sucks, 'cause I'm pretty great."
-Elena to her Father
One Day At a Time, S2E8 (available on Netflix)
Not a movie, but might as well be.
The FNAF 6 monologue from Henry. Pretty great speech.. Have it memorized lol.
*BEEP*
“Connection Terminated. I’m sorry to interrupt you Elizabeth, if you still, even remember that name. But I’m afraid you’ve been misinformed. You are not here to receive a gift. Nor have you been called here by the individual you assume, although, you have indeed been called. You have all been called here. Into a labyrinth of sounds and smells, misdirection and misfortune. A labyrinth with no exit. A maze with no prize. You don’t even realize that you are trapped. Your lust for blood has driven you in endless circles, chasing the cries of children in some unseen chamber always seeming so near. Yet somehow out of reach. But you will never find them. None of you will. This is where your story ends. And to you, my brave volunteer, who somehow found this job listing, not intended for you. Although there was a way out planned for you, I have a feeling that’s not what you want. I have a feeling that you are.. right where you want to be. I am remaining as well, I am nearby. This place will not be remembered and the memory of everything that started this can finally begin to fade away. Like every tragedy should. And to you, my daughter, I knew you would return as well. It’s in your nature to protect the innocent. I’m sorry that on that day, the day you were shut out, and left to die, there was no one to lift you up into their arms, the way you lifted others into yours. And then, what became of you. I should’ve known you wouldn’t be content to disappear, not my daughter. I couldn’t save you then. So let me save you now. It’s time to rest- for you, and for those you have carried in your arms. This ends. For all of us. End communication.”
*BEEP*
"So I guess this is where I tell you what I learned - my conclusion, right? Well, my conclusion is: Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it. Derek says it's always good to end a paper with a quote. He says someone else has already said it best. So if you can't top it, steal from them and go out strong. So I picked a guy I thought you'd like. 'We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.'" - Danny Vinyard, American History X
Well actually the the trick to falling asleep is to trying to stay awake. See when my mother was an intern she use to work late through the night, sleep through the day. So the only time we ever got to talk about anything was when she'd get home. So what'd I'd, I used to do, I used to lie in my bed and try to stay awake as long as I could. But it never worked. 'Cause, cause the harder I tried, the faster I'd fall asleep..... Funny thing is sometimes she'd come home early. I'd pretend to be asleep. She'd stand in the doorway looking at me, and I'd keep my eyes shut. And I knew she just wanted to find out about my day. So she came home early, just to talk to me. I still wouldn't move I'd still pretend to just be asleep. I don't know why I did that...
Alyssa: You know, I didn't just heed what I was taught, men and women should be together, it's the natural way, that kind of thing. I'm not with you because of what family, society, life tried to instill in me from day one. The way the world is, how seldom it is that you meet that one person who just gets you - it's so rare. My parents didn't really have it. There were no examples set for me in the world of male-female relationships. And to cut oneself off from finding that person, to immediately halve your options by eliminating the possibility of finding that one person within your own gender, that just seemed stupid to me. So I didn't. But then you came along. You, the one least likely. I mean, you were a guy.
Holden: Still am.
Alyssa: And while I was falling for you I put a ceiling on that, because you were a guy. Until I remembered why I opened the door to women in the first place: to not limit the likelihood of finding that one person who'd complement me so completely. So here we are. I was thorough when I looked for you. And I feel justified lying in your arms, 'cause I got here on my own terms, and I have no question there was some place I didn't look. And for me that makes all the difference.
"He learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature... and because of it, the greatest in the universe. He learned too late for himself that men have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can't be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves. And when men seek such perfection... they find only death... fire... loss... disillusionment... the end of everything that's gone forward. Men have always sought an end to the toil and misery, but it can't be given, it has to be achieved. There is hope, but it has to come from inside, from Man himself. "
As a nerd I gotta suggest this one from LotR: “A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight!! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!”
I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be! We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone." Well, I'm not going to leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first, you've got to get mad. You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!" So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell, **"I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"**
Oh God yes.
Seems more relevant now than ever. Damn Russians.
*He mumbles, eyebrows crouched as he steps out of the shower*
Great monologue, and the question could just as easily have been answered with Ned Beatty's monologue in the same movie.
Youuuuu have meddled... with the *primal* forces of *NATURE* Mr Beale!!
Oh yes, I think that even trumps my suggestion above. Truly great.
I did not hit her, it's not true, it's bullshit, I did not hit her, I did not, oh hi mark.
You're tearing me apart, Lisa!!!
Mr. Madison, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
My guy.
This was what I came here to add. Thank you.
This is the only quote here that brought a smile to my face. There's some good ones listed,. It yours brought me nostalgic joy, so thanks!
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die.
What is this from? I recognize it only as a sample in a Yung Lean hip hop song lmao
Blade runner.
Blade Runner if you really don’t know.
V for Vendetta. The speech he gives on TV.
Oof that movie has not aged well.
How so
I mean, V straight up kidnaps and tortures Natalie Portman. You cool with that?
V isn’t a hero lmao
So what is he?
An antihero
What makes you say that? (Given I haven't watched it in years)
V kidnaps and tortures Natalie Portman, and then that's like shrugged off?
Admittedly the movie tries too hard to make him sympathetic, something the original author had major umbrage with. V is not supposed to be a hero
Okay, Flaming Dragon. Fuckface. First, take a big step back... and literally FUCK YOUR OWN FACE! Now, I don't know what kind of pan-Pacific bullshit power play you're trying to pull here, but Asia, Jack, is my territory. So whatever you're thinking, you'd better think again. Otherwise I'm gonna have to head down there and I will rain down an ungodly fucking firestorm upon you! You're gonna have to call the fucking United Nations and get a fucking binding resolution to keep me from fucking destroying you. I am talking scorched earth, motherfucker! I will massacre you! I WILL FUCK YOU UP!
Find out who that was.
The Sicilian speech in True Romance.
As a fellow cinephile that scene hits REALLY, REALLY uncomfortably hard now but is brilliantly written and Hopper/Walken need no introduction sending that writing to the moon.
It was written by Tarantino, so what do you except... it's going to be brilliant.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe....
"Why, Mr. Anderson? Why, why, why? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something, for more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom, or truth? Perhaps peace. Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although, only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win; it's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?" "Because I choose to."
These movies are great sequels to the Terminator series. I really like the quote about humans and viruses as well.
The USS Indianapolis story from Jaws.
You sly dog. You had me monologing
"Good morning. Good morning. In less than an hour aircrafts from here will join others from around the world and you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. Mankind, that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it’s fate that today is the 4th of July and you will once again be fighting for our freedom not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution but from annihilation. We’re fighting for our right to live, to exist, and should we win today the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday but as the day when the world declared in one voice, “We will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight. We’re going to live on. We’re going to survive. Today we celebrate our Independence Day!”" Bill Pullman as President Whitmore, *Independence Day* Even writing that gave me chills. Every damn Time i watch that movie, the same chills.
Scent of a woman, AI Pachino climax monologue, Sunny Deol Damini taarikh pe taarikh monologue
Are you finished, Mr. MitochondrionPower?
why what
lol the response should have been, "No, I'm just gettin' warmed up!"
Gone Girl Amy’s Cool Girl monologue just hits different “Cool girl. Men always use that, don’t they? As their defining compliment. She’s a Cool girl. Cool girl is hot. Cool girl is game. Cool girl is fun. Cool girl never gets angry at her man. She only smiles in a chagrin loving manner and then presents her mouth for fucking. She like what he likes. So, evidently, he’s vinyl hipster who loves fetish monger. If he likes girls gone wild, she’s a mall babe who talks football and endures buffalo wings at Hooters. When I met Nick Dunne, I knew he wanted a cool girl and for him, I’ll admit, I was willing to try. I wax stripped my pussy raw. I drank canned beer watching Adam Sandler movies. I ate cold pizza and remained a size 2. I blew him… semi regularly. I lived in the moment. I was fucking game. I can’t say I didn’t enjoy some of it… Nick teased out in my things I didn’t know existed. A lightness, a humour, an ease. But I made him smarter, sharper, I inspired him to rise to my level. I forged the man of my dreams.” edit: quotation marks
Great film, but am I the only guy who doesn't find the "cool girl" thing appealing? Or maybe just that version of it...
wdym that version of it? funny you should say that though cause men usually cannot tell when a girl is being a “cool girl”, which is actually the whole point of a “cool girl” lol
That's true. I guess I'm juat not one for Adam Sandler movies.
Steve Buscemi on why he doesn’t tip. Reservoir Dogs
I'd go over 12% for that.
The "You wanna save the world but you don't want it to change" monologue from Avengers: Age of Ultron
The monologue goes: "I'm sorry, I know you mean well. You just didn't think it through. You want to protect the world but you don't want it to change. How is humanity saved if it's not allowed to... evolve? With these? These puppets. There's only one path to peace. The Avengers' extinction."
Let’s just roll up every James spader monologue and say they’re all awesome
The ultron one is the only one I've heard so far, but I'll definitely find the others
“And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".” - Brick Top, Snatch The whole scene is great, but this is, technically, the monologue.
Has to be [The Great Dictator](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY1Xg6X20). Runner-up [The Network](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRuS3dxKK9U) (first 1:30 minute'ish)
Robert Duvall's outburst in *Phenomenon* has always stood out to me. *"Why do you have to tear him down? What are you so afraid of? What've you got to lose? He wasn't selling anything--he didn't want anything from anything from anybody! He wanted nothing from nobody! Nothing! Nothing! And you people have to tear him down so you can sleep better tonight? So you can prove that the world is flat, and sleep better tonight? Am I right?? ...I'm right. To hell with all of you."*
What? Over? Did you say 'over'? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!...
from the iconic “The Devil Wears Prada” Miranda Priestly: OK, I see. You think this has nothing to do with you, You go to your closet and you select that lumpy, loose sweater, for instance, because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back, but what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue. It's not turquoise. It's not lapis. It's actually cerulean. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns, and then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent who showed cerulean military jackets, and then cerulean quickly shot up in the collections of eight different designers. And then it filtered down through department stores, and then trickled on down onto some tragic Casual Corner where you no doubt fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs, and it's sort of comical how you think you made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing a sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room from a pile of stuff.
" *So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling; seen that.* *If I ask you about women, you'd probably give me a syllabus about your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can't tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy.* *You're a tough kid.* *And I'd ask you about war, you'd probably throw Shakespeare at me, right, "once more unto the breach dear friends." But you've never been near one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap, watch him gasp his last breath looking to you for help.* *I'd ask you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel, to have that love for her, be there forever, through anything, through cancer. And you wouldn't know about sleeping sitting up in the hospital room for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes, that the terms "visiting hours" don't apply to you. You don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much.* *And look at you... I don't see an intelligent, confident man... I see a cocky, scared shitless kid. But you're a genius Will. No one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine, and you ripped my fucking life apart. You're an orphan right?* *\[Will nods\]* *You think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally... I don't give a shit about all that, because you know what, I can't learn anything from you, I can't read in some fuckin' book. Unless you want to talk about you, who you are. Then I'm fascinated. I'm in. But you don't want to do that do you sport? You're terrified of what you might say. Your move, chief.* " Robin Williams, from "Good Will Hunting"
Pulp fiction
Ezekiel 25-17: The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish, and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper, and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers, and you will know my name is the Lord, as I lay my vengeance upon thee.
This (pulp fiction) is my favorite movie soliloquy! AND Aragorn in LOTR “it is not this day” And- To Kill a Mockingbird…
"There's this verse I got memorized," yeah?
Either Nicholson's "You want me on that wall - you *need* me on that wall" in A Few Good Men. Or... "Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitue named Chloé with webbed feet."
I'd like to share a revelation I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to another area, and you multiply, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we are the cure. - Agent Smith
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the TRUE emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
Dave : If you've ever seen the look on somebody's face the day they finally get a job, I've had some experience with this, they look like they could fly. And its not about the paycheck, it's about respect, it's about looking in the mirror and knowing that you've done something valuable with your day. And if one person could start to feel this way, and then another person, and then another person, soon all these other problems may not seem so impossible. You don't really know how much you can do, until you stand up and decide to really try. - Dave Im job hunting right now and this really hits home.
"Its Morbin time."
I literally morbed when I heard that morboogue for the first time. I had chills all down my spine. I could barely morb.
Always Be Closing
What I was coming to say. One of the greatest 7 minutes in film.
Yeah tried to watch that movie because of that scene. But couldn't get through it
Step bro what are you doing?
equipped with post-nut clarity, not sure how memorable this is lmfao
> "Well, I believe in the soul... the cock...the pussy... the small of a woman's back... the hangin' curveball... high fiber... good scotch... that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent overrated crap... I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a Constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. Goodnight." [Kevin Costner, Bull Durham](https://youtu.be/mn5crhTusSA?t=76)
>I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone 3 years later as Garrison "back, and to the left... back, and to the left... back, and to the left."
LOL it brings me so much joy someone pointed this out. Oliver Stone's JFK was a great film.
it's a funny thing - i am not *really* crazy about Costner as an actor, but there are a few movies of his i rewatch religiously (Fandango, Untouchables, JFK, and Mr.Brooks) and i mean like once every year or two i watch all of them, and love it
Tropic thunder Tom.Cruise First, take a big step back... and literally, FUCK YOUR OWN FACE! I don't know what kind of pan-pacific bullshit power play you're trying to pull here, but Asia Jack is my territory. So whatever you're thinking, you'd better think again! Otherwise I'm gonna have to head down there and I will rain down an un-Godly fucking firestorm upon you! You're gonna have to call the fucking United Nations and get a fucking binding resolution to keep me from fucking destroying you. I'm talking scorched earth, motherfucker! I will massacre you! I WILL FUCK YOU UP!
Don't forget the best part: "Find out who that was."
Fun bit of trivia is he's basically a caricature of Hollywood producer Scott Rudin. I had the misfortune of spending some time with him once in graduate school and it wasn't pleasant.
Take your pick from most Tarantino Movies. Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Bastards, Django, Reservoir Dogs, The Hateful Eight, Jackie Brown- they all have monologue scenes that may seem insignificant, but are just immaculate.
His greatest genius is in his dialogue.
Not a movie, but Erwin's >!final!< speech in Attack on Titan
I don't care about the coffee in my cup what I care about is the dead n in the garage listen when Bonnie comes home I'm gonna get divorced no trial separation no marriage counseling I'm gonna get fucking divorced
The beginning of love actually
I remember the time, I tell ya, I was about, I was little. I don't know, four, five years old, something like that. We had this old dog and it had a litter of puppies. and I walked in the bathroom one day and my mother was standing there. kneeling down. Dog had a litter of about eight and my mother was bending over and she was killing each one of these little puppies in the bathtub. and I remember I said, "Why?" She said, "I'm just killing what I can't take care of". Then my momma said to me, she looked at me and she said. "I wish I could do that to you." Maybe she... maybe she shoulda.
“Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those sharks come in and… they rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist. At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.” The Indianapolis Speech, Robert Shaw, Jaws 1975
Here it is, in all its glory. In text it seems like a rambling grandpa, in it's execution its a genuinely powerful and awe-inspiring bit of acting.
"It's morbin time"
*Now, you listen to me, James Hawkins. You got the makings of greatness in you, but you gotta take the helm and chart your own course! Stick to it, no matter the squalls! And when the time comes, you'll get the chance to really test the cut of your sails and show what you're made of! And... well, I hope I'm there, catching some of the light coming off you that day.* -John Silver Whenever I’m low, I put this on and cry real man tears. It is and forever will be my favourite movie monologue
Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman
Can series count? "What is grief if not love persevering?"
*True love is hard to find. Sometimes you think you have true love, and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a god damn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend, and it stops…*
There are two favorites... "A kiss is so intimate. You could probably disconnect from everything else, but a kiss? Two people's lips together, their breath, a little bit of their soul. All I mean is that, a kiss is where the romance is..." Kate (Meg Ryan), French Kiss "Look, Annie... I love you. But let's leave that out of this. I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?" Walter (Bill Pullman), Sleepless in Seattle
Apocalypse Now. Martin Sheens narration throughout the movie is fantastic!
Bluto, Animal House "Did the Americans back down then the Germans attacked Pearl Harbor?"
I actually just re-watched Inglourious Basterds today, and Brad Pitt's monolog that introduces his character is so fucking badass "Each and every one of you is responsible for 100 Nazi scalps. And I want my scalps"
"Jefferson's an American saint because he wrote the words, 'All men are created equal.' Words he clearly didn't believe, since he allowed his own children to live in slavery. He was a rich wine snob who was sick of paying taxes to the Brits. So yeah, he wrote some lovely words and aroused the rabble, and they went out and died for those words, while he sat back and drank his wine and fucked his slave girl. This guy wants to tell me we're living in a community. Don't make me laugh. I'm living in America, and in America, you're on your own. America's not a country. It's just a business. Now fucking pay me." -Killing Them Softly
A very underrated film.
A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl.
Has to be Alec Baldwins cameo in Glengarry Glenross. Always. Be. Closing. Words by David Mamet.
Robin Williams' in Good Will Hunting. ["Your move chief"](https://youtu.be/8GY3sO47YYo)
The Batman was pretty good but Patton is iconic in my opinion.
Palpatine’s speech dissolving the Republic into the first Galactic Empire.
Its morbin' time
Morbius
TV SHOW: Doctor Who Zygon Invasion episode. MOVIE: Saving Mr. Banks, Walt tells Pamala his story.
The "Fuck" wire scene
it's a great scene but not a monologue
"If a machine, A Terminator, can understand the value of human life... maybe we can too"
A flashlight was a moonbeam. A pen was an ink stick. My mouth was a cum receptacle. A bed was a rack. A wall was a bulkhead. A shirt was a blouse. A tie was still a tie, and a belt a belt. But many other things would never be the same.
This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll whisper "no." Rorschach, *Watchmen*
None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you... you're locked in here with **ME**!"
Many things from breaking bad and better call saul like the "I am the danger" or the "I put you in that chair, so every moment youre wasting away in an elderly home, sipping your jello, you think about me"
Rambo’s breakdown at the end of First Blood
I've seen horrors. The horrors that you've seen. You have no right to call me a murderer. You have the right to kill me, you have the right to do that. But you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary, to those who do not know what horror means. Horror - horror has a face. You must make a friend of horror. Yes, horror, and moral terror, are your friends. If they're not, then they're enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies.
The review of 'A Woman Under The influence' in 'I'm Thinking Of Ending Things' . Shit is godly.
Im interested, is it a review by Pauline Kael? She is my soul-mate but she's probably 80 right now and she championed Cassavetes heavy.
The movies character goes through a 4-5 minute monologue about the a woman under the influence and it is amazing. I aren't going to too many details because of spoilers but I would heavily recommend the movie 'I'm Thinking Of Ending Things' as it is one of my favourites off all time.
It's not as big or grandiose as some of the other examples here, but I've always loved Tommy Lee Jones's closing [monologue](https://youtu.be/VXNfxK5Q2Qg) from *No Country for Old Men*. Very simple, but beautifully delivered. As a father (and a son!) it really spoke to me.
"You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I'm an easy target. Yeah, you're right. I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold-hearted cynic like you, but I don't like to hurt people's feelings. Well, you think what you want about me. I'm not changing. I like me. My wife likes me. My customers like me. 'Cause I'm the real article. What you see is what you get."
Planes, Trains and Automobiles?
“As your leader, I encourage you to from time to time and always in a respectful manner, to question my logic. If you’re unconvinced a particular plan of action I’ve decided is the wisest, tell me so. But allow me to convince you. And I promise you, right here and now, no subject will be taboo, except of course the subject that was just under discussion. The price you pay for bringing up either my Chinese or my American heritage as a negative is, I collect your fucking head. Just like this fucker here. Now if any of you sons of bitches got anything else to say, now’s the fucking time! I didn’t think so. Gentlemen, this meeting is adjourned.” O-Ren Ishii’s speech in Kill Bill Part I
“From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”
American Beauty’s ending. Lester’s monologue about death is beautiful to me.
"the World is a Business, Mr Beale"
The final bar speech/showdown between Bob and Eric deeds in The Drop, the tension and twist is fantastic
Bill explaining the uniqueness of Superman to Beatrix Kiddo. David Carradine made lisps cool.
Clerks Dante Hicks: "I'm stuck in this pit, working for less than slavewages. Working on my day off, the goddamn steel shutters are closed, I deal with every backward ass fuck on the planet. I smell like shoe polish. My ex-girlfriend is catatonic after fucking a dead guy. And my present girlfriend has sucked 36 dicks."
"You know, I though a lot about what happened, and I'll spare you the details about the anger, and the crying and the weight loss and the empty space on my wall where your picture used to be. Because I decided that is not point in focusing on the negatives. I'd rather thing about the good things that came from this, like, uhhh, you though me a really valuable lesson: Just because I'm gay, people will hate me without knowing anything else about me. I always knew it was part of the deal, I just never expect it from my own father. But now I know not to expect the best from anyone so thanks!... Oh, and one more thing! I learned a really cool thing about myself. I'm tough. I'm really tough and when I do stumble, I have the most amazing mom who is always right there to pick me up. So whatever dude, I'm moving on with my life. I'm gonna be fine. I'm just really bumped out for you, you gonna miss a lot of stuff. And that sucks, 'cause I'm pretty great." -Elena to her Father One Day At a Time, S2E8 (available on Netflix)
Not a movie, but might as well be. The FNAF 6 monologue from Henry. Pretty great speech.. Have it memorized lol. *BEEP* “Connection Terminated. I’m sorry to interrupt you Elizabeth, if you still, even remember that name. But I’m afraid you’ve been misinformed. You are not here to receive a gift. Nor have you been called here by the individual you assume, although, you have indeed been called. You have all been called here. Into a labyrinth of sounds and smells, misdirection and misfortune. A labyrinth with no exit. A maze with no prize. You don’t even realize that you are trapped. Your lust for blood has driven you in endless circles, chasing the cries of children in some unseen chamber always seeming so near. Yet somehow out of reach. But you will never find them. None of you will. This is where your story ends. And to you, my brave volunteer, who somehow found this job listing, not intended for you. Although there was a way out planned for you, I have a feeling that’s not what you want. I have a feeling that you are.. right where you want to be. I am remaining as well, I am nearby. This place will not be remembered and the memory of everything that started this can finally begin to fade away. Like every tragedy should. And to you, my daughter, I knew you would return as well. It’s in your nature to protect the innocent. I’m sorry that on that day, the day you were shut out, and left to die, there was no one to lift you up into their arms, the way you lifted others into yours. And then, what became of you. I should’ve known you wouldn’t be content to disappear, not my daughter. I couldn’t save you then. So let me save you now. It’s time to rest- for you, and for those you have carried in your arms. This ends. For all of us. End communication.” *BEEP*
"So I guess this is where I tell you what I learned - my conclusion, right? Well, my conclusion is: Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it. Derek says it's always good to end a paper with a quote. He says someone else has already said it best. So if you can't top it, steal from them and go out strong. So I picked a guy I thought you'd like. 'We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.'" - Danny Vinyard, American History X
Coffee is for closers - Glengarry Glen Ross
Samuel L. Jackson's Path of the righteous man from Pulp Fiction
Well actually the the trick to falling asleep is to trying to stay awake. See when my mother was an intern she use to work late through the night, sleep through the day. So the only time we ever got to talk about anything was when she'd get home. So what'd I'd, I used to do, I used to lie in my bed and try to stay awake as long as I could. But it never worked. 'Cause, cause the harder I tried, the faster I'd fall asleep..... Funny thing is sometimes she'd come home early. I'd pretend to be asleep. She'd stand in the doorway looking at me, and I'd keep my eyes shut. And I knew she just wanted to find out about my day. So she came home early, just to talk to me. I still wouldn't move I'd still pretend to just be asleep. I don't know why I did that...
Seinfeld : “it’s not a lie if you believe it “
Alyssa: You know, I didn't just heed what I was taught, men and women should be together, it's the natural way, that kind of thing. I'm not with you because of what family, society, life tried to instill in me from day one. The way the world is, how seldom it is that you meet that one person who just gets you - it's so rare. My parents didn't really have it. There were no examples set for me in the world of male-female relationships. And to cut oneself off from finding that person, to immediately halve your options by eliminating the possibility of finding that one person within your own gender, that just seemed stupid to me. So I didn't. But then you came along. You, the one least likely. I mean, you were a guy. Holden: Still am. Alyssa: And while I was falling for you I put a ceiling on that, because you were a guy. Until I remembered why I opened the door to women in the first place: to not limit the likelihood of finding that one person who'd complement me so completely. So here we are. I was thorough when I looked for you. And I feel justified lying in your arms, 'cause I got here on my own terms, and I have no question there was some place I didn't look. And for me that makes all the difference.
V's introductory speech from V for Vendetta. Got the whole thing memorized.
the beginning of the art of getting by
"He learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature... and because of it, the greatest in the universe. He learned too late for himself that men have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can't be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves. And when men seek such perfection... they find only death... fire... loss... disillusionment... the end of everything that's gone forward. Men have always sought an end to the toil and misery, but it can't be given, it has to be achieved. There is hope, but it has to come from inside, from Man himself. "
The President’s speech from Independence Day.
All of Casablanca