So what are your favourite movie monologues. The speeches that make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end or have you pretending that you’ve a bit of dust in your eye. Inspiring or heart rending.

Gonna start off with Al Pacino’s team talk from Any Given Sunday.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_iKg7nutNY[/video]

In Under Siege where that commander has just opened the file on Casey Ryback and he’s reading it off. They’re ****, you just know some good shits gonna go down.

“Ryback is an ex-SEAL… Expert in martial arts, explosives, weapons and tactics. Silver Star, Navy Cross, Purple Heart with cluster”

“He’s the best there is”

“Goddamn cooks a Seal!?!”

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8lnFKwOVws&feature=related[/video]
“Someday this war’s gonna end”

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXyhj9xo3dI&feature=related[/video]
“They’ll look up and shout ‘save us’ and I’ll whisper ‘no'”

voice over on the first , much maligned version of bladerunner

The end of Analyze This when the old couple come in with marriage difficulties…

Pretty much all of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

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[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsSTgOXbc7k[/video]

True Romance – [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqccyUpnZwA[/video]

Sicilians

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvwqK2gn3S0[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NEKzLiXfuc[/video]

Nicholson:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2F4VcBmeo[/video]

Anthony Hopkins’ speech from the pulpit at the end of The Trial.

End of.

David Thewliss’s twisted ranting about the barcode and the number of the beast in Mike Leighs Naked. Ridiculously intense and powerful. And apparently ad-libbed. Which is actually quite scary

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hego_qj1G8[/video]

“So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then, he died of dysentery. He gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass, two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you.”

Lock Stock, could use the whole film.

contains swearing.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA7nHD5ORUA[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKX32WqDNDU[/video]

Forgot about this one…

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_0D8F_X7us[/video]

Contains BIG SWEARY WORD!!
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpF-oUvwruI&feature=related[/video]

Almost forgot…
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJCa6Bp6vOo[/video]

pretty much a monologue from Paris, Texas;

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5eL2oeT1qM&feature=related[/video]

this one is a monologue from the same film;

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TMXpSeEUlg[/video]

The Cook The Thief..

Any Charlie Chaplin film.

we few, we happy few, we? band of brothers;

For he to-day that sheds his blood with me

Shall be my brother
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-yZNMWFqvM&feature=related[/video]

[EDIT] A few short lines for other actors but basically a monologue.

[VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcAaertdaQk[/VIDEO]

Suprised this isnt posted already…

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUc62jD-G0o[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzqdDoe8FoM[/video]

I know what you’re thinking: ‘Did he fire six shots, or only five?’ Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I’ve kinda lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?

Hi, Lloyd.
A little slow tonight, isn’t it?
Yes it is, Mr. Torrance.
What will it be?
l’m awfully glad you asked me that, Lloyd. . .
. . .because l just happen to have two twenties. . .
. . .and two tens right here in my wallet.
l was afraid they’d be there until next April.
So here’s what:
You slip me a bottle of bourbon. . .
. . .a little glass and some ice.
You can do that, can’t you?
You’re not too busy, are you?
No, sir. l’m not busy at all.
Good man.
You set them up. . .
. . .and l’ll knock them back, one by one.
White man’s burden, Lloyd, my man.
White man’s burden.
Say, Lloyd. . .
. . .it seems l’m temporarily light.
How’s my credit in this joint, anyway?
Your credit’s fine, Mr. Torrance.
That’s swell.
l like you, Lloyd.
l always liked you.
You were always the best of them.
Best goddamn bartender. . .
. . .from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine.
Or Portland, Oregon, for that matter.
Thank you for saying so.
l never laid a hand on him, goddamn it.
l didn’t.
l wouldn’t touch one hair on his goddamn little head.
l love the little son of a bitch.
l’d do anything for him.
Any **** thing for him.
But that bitch!
As long as l live. . .
. . .she’ll never let me forget what happened.
l did hurt him once, okay?
lt was an accident.
Completely unintentional.
lt could have happened to anybody.
And it was three goddamn years ago!
The little **** had thrown all my papers all over the floor.
All l tried to do was pull him up.
A momentary loss of muscular coordination.
l mean. . .
. . .a few extra foot-pounds of energy. . .
. . .per second, per second!

Sicilians are great liars. The best in the world. I’m Sicilian. My father was the world heavy-weight champion of Sicilian liars. From growing up with him I learned the pantomime. There are seventeen different things a guy can do when he lies to give himself away. A guys got seventeen pantomimes. A woman’s got twenty, but a guy’s got seventeen… but, if you know them, like you know your own face, they beat lie detectors all to hell. Now, what we got here is a little game of show and tell. You don’t wanna show me nothin’, but you’re tellin me everything. I know you know where they are, so tell me before I do some damage you won’t walk away from.

This and a whole load more from the same scene (probably not PC enough to post). Probably the most gripping 5 minutes of film I’ve seen.

True Romance for me too. Awesome

lock stock is a great film. not just for monologues. just sat and watched the clips posted above, quoted them both word for word. and ive not seen it in years.

“I’ve seen C-beams glisten in the dark near the Tanhauser gate…”

For richmtb

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JjJzMBGUwo&feature=related[/video]

Muppetwrangler that is a fantastic speech, one of the best ever. However that clip is a bit over-egged for my liking 🙂

One more. Dramatisation of a real speech and all the more powerful for it.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpdeNcH1H8A[/video]

Chris Walken’s “uncomfortable hunk o’ metal” speech in Pulp Fiction.

Rambo’s Petrol Station scene.

Keanu Reeves’ “any butt-reaming a-hole” speech in Parenthood.

molgrips, which clip do you think is over-egged, if it’s the bladerunner one I’d agree that it’s teetering on the edge of cheesiness but I reckon it’s just the right side of it, and a worthy inclusion.

Not that there is anything wrong with a bit of cheesiness given the right situation:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjNxUguxwjU[/video]

Val Kilmers greatest hour

Quint’s Indianapolis Speech in Jaws

“Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte… 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 an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you’re in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail fin. What we didn’t know, was our bomb mission had been 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’, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named “The Battle of Waterloo” and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and screamin’ and sometimes the shark will go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark… he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be living… until 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 the poundin’ and the hollerin’, they all 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, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us… he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts 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 in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.”

The opening scene in Apocalypse Now, just after The Doors have finished and Willard’s punched a mirror… The bit where he wakes up and says “Saigon. Shit, I’m still in Saigon!”.

Love it. Loved it so much I visited the place.

The whole thing is stacked full of good monologues in fact. Killgore’s one. Kurtz’s one. All good.

Guys, guys, guys.

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