Some of your favorite movie monologues?
 

The one that stands out is Al Pacino at the end of Scent of a Woman...what are your favorite movie monologues?

Jack Nicholson near the end of A Few Good Men - brilliant work by both Jack and the writer. Rumor has it Jack did it in one take.

The drill Sargeant in Full Metal Jacket, hammering the recruits.

gary busey in dc cabs
"i dont know why women are so uptight.you have half the money and all the pussy"

The "I'm in love with you" monologue that Ben Affleck gives to the chick in Chasing Amy. You can paraphrase it and use it on any girl, it's so brilliant.

Rutger Hower's dying monologue in "Blade Runner." Was key in my paper on Philip K. Dick's work as translated into film.

The Big Labowsky....now thats a great movie

the into/ending to trainspotting "choose life" monolouge if you dont know what i am talking about RENT TRAINSPOTTING NOW

I'd have to go with Al Pachino in "The Devil's Advocate." At the end, he really sells it...

Kevin Smith says this accounts for a large percentage of the people buying the screenplay for the movie. It's guys who are trying to memorize that monologe so they can say it to their girlfriends.

My choice? Alec Baldwin talking to the salesman in Glengarry Glen Ross. It's like poetry.

"That watch costs more than your car. I made $970,000 last year. How much you make? You see pal, that's who I am, and you're nothing. Nice guy? I don't give a shit. Good father? fuck you! Go home and play with your kids! You wanna work here? Close! You think this is abuse? You think this is abuse, you cocksucker? You can't take this, how can you take the abuse you get on a sit?"

And my very favorite:

"We're adding a little something to this month's sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anybody want to see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired."

Chevy Chase Christmas vacation, at the end whenhe goes off on his boss for changing the bonus into a jelly of the month club.

Clark Griswold: Hey! If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah!

NOW that is great stuff.

How about Kevin Costner's monologue to Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham? That was a good one. Or what about Agent Smith's tyrades in the Matrix?

pretty much anything from Goodfellas is classic. my favorite being Joe Pesci to Ray Liota" What, I amuse you.... I'm here for your entertainment."That movie should ( and has been by me) at least 20 times to appreciate all aspects!

I love you. And not, not in a friendly way, although I think we're great friends. And not in a misplaced affection, puppy-dog way, although I'm sure that's what you'll call it. I love you. Very, very simple, very truly. You are the epitome of everything I have ever looked for in another human being. And I know that you think of me as just a friend, and crossing that line is the furthest thing from an option you would ever consider. But I had to say it. I just, I can't take this anymore. I can't stand next to you without wanting to hold you. I can't, I can't look into your eyes without feeling that, that longing you only read about in trashy romance novels. I can't talk to you without wanting to express my love for everything you are. And I know this will probably queer our friendship - no pun intended - but I had to say it, because I've never felt this way before, and I don't care. I like who I am because of it. And if bringing this to light means we can't hang out anymore, then that hurts me. But God, I just, I couldn't allow another day to go by without just getting it out there, regardless of the outcome, which by the look on your face is to be the inevitable shoot-down. And, you know, I'll accept that. But I know...I know that some part of you is hesitating for a moment, and if there is a moment of hesitation, then that means you feel something too. All I ask, please, is that you just, you just not dismiss that - and try to dwell in it for just ten seconds. Alyssa, there isn't another soul on this fucking planet who has ever made me half the person I am when I'm with you, and I would risk this friendship for the chance to take it to the next plateau. Because it is there between you and me. You can't deny that. Even if, you know, even if we never talk again after tonight, please know that I'm forever changed because of who you are and what you've meant to me, which - while I do appreciate it - I'd never need a painting of birds bought at a diner to remind me of.

Someone listened to the commentary track too, eh?;)

Glengarry Glen Ross was good. Also how about Martin Sheen in Apocalypse now, Robert Deniro in Taxi Driver, Ray Liota in Goodfellas and Kevin Spacey in American Beauty.All fine performances by some of the best modern actors.

James Garner's several monologues on war and such in "The Americanization of Emily". Good stuff.

I actually like Silent Bob's monolouge in Chasing Amy. I think that one was the best in that movie.

Right off hand, Orson Welles in The Third Man...........

Fight Club has great monologues, my favorite:

"What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God. If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out and dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?

What you end up doing is you spend your life searching for your father and God.

What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that could happen"

Damn I love that part, a great monologue for a great movie, I had a sound clip of that for a while.
Another great monologue (besides most parts of fight club) is at the beginning of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", I used that once during a play audtion, got callbacks, but was to short for the part :).
I just wanted to say "Half a saltshaker full of cocaine" in front of a lot of people :D.

Clint Eastwood in "Outlaw Josey Wales" where he's rallying his folks to prepare for an attack on the prairie cottage.

It ends with this: "Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is."

from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope:
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Princess Leia: General Kenobi. Years ago, you served my father in the Clone Wars... now he begs you to help him in his struggle against the Empire. I regret that I am unable to present my father's request to you in person. But my ship has fallen under attack and I'm afraid my mission to Alderaan has failed. I've placed information vital to the survival of the rebellion into the memory systems of this R2 unit. My father will know how to retrieve it. You must see this droid safely delivered to him on Alderaan. This is our most desperate hour. Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.</blockquote>

two of them come to mind from the same movie, Boiler Room.

Giovanni Ribisi says,"I read this article a while back, that said that Microsoft employs more millionaire secretary's that any other company in the world. They took stock options over Christmas bonuses. It was a good move. I remember there was this picture, of one of the groundskeepers next to his Ferrari. Blew my mind. you see shit like that, and it just plants seeds, makes you think its possible, even easy. And then you turn on the TV, and there's just more of it. The $87 Million lottery winner, that kid actor that just made 20 million o his last movie, that internet stock that shot through the roof, you could have made millions if you had just gotten in early, and that's exactly what I wanted to do: get in. I didn't want to be an innovator any more, i just wanted to make the quick and easy buck, i just wanted in. The Notorious BIG said it best: "Either you're slingin' crack-rock, or you've got a wicked jump-shot." Nobody wants to work for it anymore. There's no honor in taking that after school job at Mickey Dee's, honor's in the dollar, kid. So I went the white boy way of slinging crack-rock: I became a stock broker."

and

Ben Affleck says,"Act as if.... Act as if you are the CEO of this company... Act as if you have a 10 inch dick...."

There are numerous ones from Fight Club.

But the one that I remember most is from Four Weddings and a Funeral done by John Hannah when he is talking at the funeral. He recites Funeral Blues by W. H. Auden.

The one that always hits me first is from the intro to a Clockwork Orange... I'm sure there are many others i lioke better but this always comes to mind first

There was me that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie Boy and Dim. And we sat in the Korova Milk Bar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova Milk Bar sold milk plus - milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old Ultra-Violence.

Damn see what I mean... probablyy one of my favorites is from True Romance.

<b>Cliff: </b> Now, wait a minute and listen. I haven't seen Clarence in three years. Yesterday he shows up here with a girl, sayin' he got married. He told me he needed some quick cash for a honeymoon, so he asked if he could borrow five hundred dollars. I wanted to help him out so I wrote out a check. We went to breakfast and that's the last I saw of him. So help me God. They never thought to tell me where they were goin'. And I never thought to ask.

<b>Coccotti: </b> Sicilians are great liars. The best in the world. I'm a Sicilian. And my old man was the world heavyweight champion of Sicilian liars. And from growin' up with him I learned the pantomime. Now there are seventeen different things a guy can do when he lies to give him away. A guy has seventeen pantomimes. A woman's got twenty, but a guy's got seventeen. And if you know 'em like ya know your own face, they beat lie detectors to hell. 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. Now I know you know where they are. So tell me, before I do some damage you won't walk away from.


<b>Cliff: </b> Could I have one of those Chesterfields now?


<b>Coccotti: </b> Sure.

<b>Cliff: </b>Got a match? Oh, don't bother. I got one. So you're a Sicilian, huh?

<b>Coccotti: </b> Uh-huh.

<b>Cliff: </b> You know I read a lot. Especially things that have to do with history. I find that shit fascinating. In fact, I don't know if you know this or not, Sicilians were spawned by niggers.

<b>Coccotti: </b> Come again?

<b>Cliff: </b> It's a fact. Sicilians have nigger blood pumpin' through their hearts. If you don't believe me, look it up. You see, hundreds and hundreds of years ago the Moors conquered Sicily. And Moors are niggers. Way back then, Sicilians were like the wops in northern Italy. Blond hair, blue eyes. But, once the Moors moved in there, they changed the whole country. They did so much fuckin' with the Sicilian women, they changed the blood-line for ever, from blond hair and blue eyes to black hair and dark skin. I find it absolutely amazing to think that to this day, hundreds of years later, Sicilians still carry that nigger gene. I'm just quotin' history. It's a fact. It's written. Your ancestors were niggers. Your great, great, great, great, great-grandmother was fucked by a nigger, and had a half-nigger kid. That is a fact. Now tell me, am I lyin'?

The opening of Patton, where Patton addresses his off-screen army. This was cleaned up for the text of the REAL speech that Patton delivered in the war. If the movie was made today, all the obscenities would probably be in it, but unfortunately, George C. Scott wouldn't be.

Some choice selections:

"Now I want you to remember that no man ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other dumb bastard die for HIS country."

"There is one thing that you will never have to do, and you may thank God for it. Years from now, when your grandson asks you 'what did you do in the great world war two?' you won't have to say, "well, I shoveled shit in Louisiana.'"

-Mikey

"You say I have a GOD complex?? Let me tell you something....I AM GOD!!" - Alex Baldwin's Character in Malice

Every post here are great words of motivation. No one mentioned the speech from Braveheart, that was good.

He sure does

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The one from vacation is the ultimate bitching someone should get

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Halx:
Wow, I like it. Is this from a movie or is this your own confession of love for someone? :D