Im sure this has already been discussed at some point, but i was just watching Any Given Sunday and remembered how awesome Pacino's locker room speech is, and that got me thinking about other memorable monlogues and speeches in cinema.

My favs have to be Pacinos speech from Any Given Sunday, Travoltas opening speech in Swordfish, and Brandos speech about horror in Apocalypse Now.

George C. Scott in Patton. Period.

Christopher Walken's speech in Pulp Fiction.

The president in Independence Day before the final battle.

Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men.

Lt. Colonel Kilgore in

Apocalypse Now

i thought dennis hopper's little speech in true romance was a ballsy way to go out.

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Im sure this has already been discussed at some point, but i was just watching Any Given Sunday and remembered how awesome Pacino's locker room speech is, and that got me thinking about other memorable monlogues and speeches in cinema.

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That's a great f'in speech. It's funny but I remembered that speech at the oddest time, after not having seen the movie in ages.

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The president in Independence Day before the final battle.

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Saw that this weekend, and while a little cheesy, still gave me chills.

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Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men.

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Good one.

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Bundle all of Al Pacino's in "The Devil's Advocate" together.

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Hell yes.

Also, I'm partial to Jules' speech in Pulp Fiction where he quotes the bible passage, just before they shoot Brad.


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Jessup and Patton close call.

Patton without a doubt. Watched it this weekend. Unbelieveable (and cleaned up from the real speech given by GSP) and much needed by a nation that now seems to lack the stomach for prolonged conflict.

This one sticks out for me:

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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.

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Lots of good ones mentioned but I really love the speech that SPO put up.

I also like the George Clooney in confessions of a dangerous mind. The Jesus speech

Robert Shaw in JAWS.

You're gonna stand there, owning a fireworks stand, and tell me you don't have no whistling bungholes, no spleen spliters, whisker biscuits, honkey lighters, hoosker doos, hoosker donts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers, with or without the scooter stick, or one single whistling kitty chaser?

12 Angry Men.

Glengarry Glen Ross
Alec Baldwin's rant.

dp

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Here's some older ones I'll offer, because there were, of course, quotable quotes in movies a long time before many on this board ever got a chance to watch flicks.

Watching new movies on DVD is very cool, but I think the opportunity to watch old, real old and even very, very old movies is the schiznit.

Here's some I remember:

Henry Fonda's rambling story to Jimmy Stewart, over the opening credits of "The Cheyenne Social Club."

Henry Fonda at the end of "The Grapes of Wrath."

Jack Nicholson in "Five Easy Pieces," while ordering food from a particularly *****y waitress.

"Sgt. York," played by Gary Cooper, was a man of very few words, so there weren't many long speeches by him in that movie. However, what his commanding officer or his mentor back home, played by Walter Brennan, said to him about defending things dear to him was memorable.

Rosie O'Donald in "Beautiful Girls."

Steve Martin in "Roxanne."

Marlon Brando in "Julius Caesar," Shakespeare's words, his delivery. Marlon has many good ones in other films, like "On The Waterfront" and "Apocalypse Now."

Woody Allen in "Annie Hall" and all of his movies.

Mozart didn't say much with words either, but F. Murray Abraham as Salieri describes the genius and his own frustration a couple of times in "Amadeus."

Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara has a couple in "Gone With The Wind."

Christopher Walken, delivering a watch to a comrade's son, in "Pulp Fiction."

Robert Shaw, as Quint, about the USS Indianapolis being torpedoed, in "Jaws."

Those are some good ones.





Wow, look what I found in cyberspace!!!!

Check these sites out and watch a good, quotable movie, new or old whether you're young or old:

http://www.whysanity.net/monos/


http://www.filmsite.org/bestspeeches10.html



Gig 'em, FAST FRED '65.

Before the world wide web, village idiots usually stayed in their own village.

Best: Patton's address to the troops

Some others:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: filibuster speech

The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig's farewell speech

The Caine Mutiny: Capt. Queeg's testimony

Brian's Song: Gayle Sayer's award acceptance speech

Jaws: Quint's tale of the U.S.S. Indianapolis

Animal House: Bluto's nothing-is-over speech

Full Metal Jacket: DI Hartman's introductory speech

Bull Durham: Crash's "I believe in ...." listing

Field of Dreams: Terence Mann's "People will come" speech

A Few Good Men: Jessup's tirade

For those of you who haven't heard the "Any Given Sunday" Speech, I discovered this yesterday:

http://www.texags.com/main/forum.reply.asp?topic_id=650822&forum_id=5

Now for my smart ass answer:

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Tommy: Hey, what's your name?
Helen: Helen.
Tommy: That's nice, you look like a Helen. Helen, we're both in sales. Let me tell you why I suck as a sales man. Let's say I go into some guy's office and let's say he's even remotely interested in buying something. Well then I get all excited I'm like Jojo the idiot circus boy with a pretty new pet. The pet is my possible sale. Oh , my pretty little pet, I love you. So I stoke it, and I pet it, and I massage it, hehe I love it, I love my little naughty pet, you're naughty. Then I take my naughty pet and I go...
[makes ripping noises as he tears apart the roll]
Tommy: Uuuuuuh. I killed it. I killed my sale. That's when I blow it. That's when people like us gotta forge ahead, Helen, am I right?

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Network (1976)

Howard Beale:

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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 work, 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 TV's 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 know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are 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 gonna 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 got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, *******it! My life has VALUE!' ... But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"

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You turkeys missed it.

Al Pacino's speech to the Baird students and faculty at the end of, "Scent of a Woman".

And I love when Any wrote Red and said, "YOu know, hope is a good thing - maybe the best of things and a good thing never dies."

southlake beat my to it...

how has no one brought up ben afflecks "recruiting" rant from Boiler room....awesomeness

Swifty just beat me to it, I was going to go with Network, though an honorable mention goes to Randall's diatribe at the end of Clerks following Dante's "what are you going to do for an encore" comment:

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You sound like an @sshole! Jesus, nobody twisted your arm to be here - you're here of your own volition. You like to think the weight of the world rests on your shoulder, like this place would fall apart if Dante wasn't here. Jesus, you over-compensate for having what is basically a monkey's job. You push f--king buttons! Anybody could waltz in here and do our jobs. You - you're so obsessed with making everything seem so much more epic, so much more important than it really is. Christ, you work in a convenience store, Dante - and badly I might add. I work in a s--tty video store, badly as well. You know, that guy Jay's got it right, man, he has no delusions about what he does. Us - we like to make ourselves seem so much more important than the people who come in here to buy a paper or God forbid, cigarettes. We look down on them as if we're so advanced. Well, if we're so f--king advanced, what are we doing working here?"

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Tarantino: Four Rooms

About one minute less than it takes to count to 700. Now Ted, a person's life is filled with a zillion little experiences. Some which are insignificant, have no meaning, and, you know, you forget them. Others which you remember for the rest of your natural life. Now, since what we're proposing here is so unusual, so outside the norm, this is a good bet that is going to be one of those incidents that sticks. So, since you're gonna be stuck remembering this for the rest of your life, you have to decide what that memory will be. So, Ted, are you going to remember for the next 40 years, give or take a decade, that you *refused* a $1000 for one second's worth of work? Or that you *made* $1000 for one second's worth of work?

Not as serious or awe inspiring as Patton, but a good one none the less

Not a monologue, but I like it anyway:

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A marine COLONEL who has been watching JOKER turns from the group around the grave and strides up. JOKER snaps to attention.

COLONEL
Marine !

LT. CLEVES

Colonel.

COLONEL
Marine, what is that button on your body
armor?

JOKER
A peace symbol, sir.


COLONEL
Where'd you get it?

JOKER
I don't remember, sir.

COLONEL
What is that you've got written on your
helmet?

JOKER
"Born to Kill," sir.


COLONEL
You write "Born to Kill" on your helmet and
you wear a peace button. What's that
supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?!


JOKER
No, sir.

COLONEL
You'd better get your head and your ass wired
together, or I will take a giant s**t on you!


JOKER
Yes, sir.

COLONEL
Now answer my question or you'll be standing
tall before the man.

JOKER
I think I was trying to suggest something
about the duality of man, sir.

COLONEL
The what?

JOKER
The duality of man. The Jungian thing, sir.

COLONEL
Whose side are you on, son?

JOKER
Our side, sir.


COLONEL
Don't you love your country?

JOKER
Yes, sir.

COLONEL
Then how about getting with the program?
Why don't you jump on the team and come
on in for the big win?


JOKER
Yes, sir!

COLONEL
Son, all I've ever asked of my marines is that
they obey my orders as they would the word
of God. We are here to help the Vietnamese,
because inside every gook there is an
American trying to get out. It's a hardball
world, son. We've gotta keep our heads until
this peace craze blows over.

JOKER
Aye-aye, sir.

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Hill: The question is, "Do I have a 'God Complex'?


Riley: Dr. Kessler says, "yes."

Hill: Which makes me wonder if this lawyer has any idea as to the kind of grades one has to receive in college to be accepted at a top medical school.



Hill: Or if you have the vaguest clue as to how talented someone has be to lead a surgical team.



Hill: I have an M.D. from Harvard. I am board certified in cardiothoracic medicine and trauma surgery. I have been awarded citations from seven different medical journals in New England; and I am never, ever sick at sea.
Hill: So I ask you, when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn't miscarry, or that their daughter doesn't bleed to death, or that their mother doesn't suffer acute neural trauma from postoperative shock, who do you think they're praying to? Now, you go ahead and read your Bible, Dennis, and you go to your church and with any luck you might win the annual raffle. But if you're looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17th, and he doesn't like to be second guessed.




Hill: You ask me if I have a God complex?



Let me tell you something:



I AM GOD.

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Alec Baldwin, Malice

#1 has to be Patton if we're simply discussing the most famous/memorable monologues. (Especially among Aggies.)

Noone has mentioned Gordon Gecko's "Greed is good" speech yet, though. That's a solid contender for 2nd place.

couldn't decide between this one

Gibert: I just wanted to say that I'm a nerd, and I'm here tonight to stand up for the rights of other nerds. I mean uh, all our lives we've been laughed at and made to feel inferior. And tonight, those *******s, they trashed our house. Why? Cause we're smart? Cause we look different? Well, we're not. I'm a nerd, and uh, I'm pretty proud of it.
Lewis: Hi, Gilbert. I'm a nerd too. I just found that out tonight. We have news for the beautiful people. There's a lot more of us then there are of you. I know there's alumni here tonight. When you went to Adams you might've been called a spazz, or a dork, or a geek. Any of you that have ever felt stepped on, left out, picked on, put down, whether you think you're a nerd or not, why don't you just come down here and join us. Okay? Come on.
Gibert: Just join us cos uh, no-one's gonna really be free until nerd persecution ends.

or this one

Coach Harris: You know, when you were a baby in your crib, your father looked down at you, he had but one hope - some day my son will grow to be a man. Well look at you now. You just got your asses whipped by a bunch of ******* nerds.
[shouts]
Coach Harris: Nerds! Well, if I was you, I'd do something about it. I would get up and redeem myself in the eyes of my father, my maker, and my coach!

William Wallace motivating the Scottish troops in Braveheart (The "balls of fire from his eyes and bolts of lighning from his arse" speech)

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 prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds, pretty standard really. At the age of 12 I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking, I suggest you try it.

Good one swiffert.

Someone mentioned Bull Durham, I think the best one from that movie is the coach's speech in the locker room about lollygaggers. Greatness.