Favorite movie speech

[James Logan]

I'd have to say the "Sons of Scotland" speech William Wallace gives at the battle of Stirling in BRAVEHEART.

How 'bout you guys (and girls)?

[EBastard]

The all time greatest...from Glengarry Glen Ross:

Moss(Ed Harris): Who are you? What's your name?
Blake(Alec Baldwin): You see this watch? You see this watch?
Moss: Yeah.
Blake: 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?

Blake: You got leads. Mitch & Murray paid good money. Get their names to sell them. You can't close the leads you're given, you can't close shit, *you are* shit, hit the bricks pal, and beat it, 'cause you are going *out*.
Shelley Levene(Jack Lemmon): The leads are weak.
Blake: "The leads are weak." The fucking leads are weak? You're weak. I've been in this business fifteen years...
Moss: What's your name?
Blake: Fuck you! That's my name!
[Moss laughs.]
Blake: You know why, mister? 'Cause you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight, I drove an eighty thousand dollar BMW. *That's* my name.

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[BadCoverVersion]

A couple of my favourites...Still, I know I'll be updating this post!
There are so bleedin' many!

"Well, basically, there was this little dot, right? And the dot went bang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento mori, ad infinitum, sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till Doomsday!" - Johnny, Naked.

"IT'S SHITE BEING SCOTTISH!! We're the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched miserable servile pathetic trash that was ever shat on civilization... Some people hate the English. I don't. They're just wankers! We on the other hand, are colonized by wankers. Can't even find a decent culture to get colonized by! We're ruled by effete assholes. It's a shite state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and all the fresh air in the world won't make any fucking difference!" - Renton, Trainspotting.

[paul calf]

the speah from jake/de niroin raging bull I remember those cheers they still ring in my ears, and for years they'll remain in my thoughts. 'Cause one night I took off my robe and what'd I do, I forgot to wear shorts. I recall every fall, every hook, every jab, the worst way a guy could get rid of his flab. As you know, my life was a jab... Though I'd rather hear you cheer when I delve into Shakespeare. A Horse, a Horse, my Kingdom for a Horse, I haven't had a winner in six months. I know I'm no Olivier, but if he fought Sugar Ray, he would say that the thing ain't the ring it's the play. So gimme a stage where this bull here can rage. And though I can fight I'd much rather recite That's entertainment. That's entertainment

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[paul calf]

jules speach inpulp fiction just before he shoots someone is amazing

[b]The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities 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 would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.


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[thingsgoinon]

Quint in Jaws :

"Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad fish! Not like going down to the pond and chasing bluegills and tommycocks. This shark, swallow you whole. No shakin', no tenderizin', down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back your tourists, put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant! I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten. But you've gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's too many captains on this island. Ten thousand dollars for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing."

Quint in Jaws again:

"Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian Delailie, we'd just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half hour. Tiger. Thirteen 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', so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the squares in the old calendars like the Battle o' 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, 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. Bosun's mate. I thought he was asleep, 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. Noon 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 start 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. Three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the twenty-ninth, nineteen-forty five. Anyway, we delivered the bomb."

Johnny in The Dead Zone :

"Bless me"? Do you know what God did for me? He threw an 18-wheeled truck at me and bounced me into nowhere for five years! When I woke up, my girl was gone, my job was gone, my legs are just about useless... Blessed me?! God's been a real sport to me!"

Col. Joshua Chamberlain in Gettysburg:

"Many of us volunteered to fight for the Union. Some came mainly because we were bored at home and this looked like it might be fun. Some came because we were ashamed not to. Many came because it was the right thing to do.This is a different kind of army. If you look at history you'll see men fight for pay, or women, or some other kind of loot. They fight for land, or because a king makes them, or just because they like killing. But we're here for something new. This hasn't happened much in the history of the world. We are an army out to set other men free. America should be free ground, from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow, no man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. Here you can be something. Here you can build a home. But it's not the land. There's always more land. It's the idea that we all have value, you and me. What we're fighting for, in the end, is each other. Sorry. Didn't mean to preach."

The highlighted part is no longer true of America unfortunately.

[A.J. Hakari]

Unfortunately, I can't recall the exact dialogue, but I loved Michael Douglas' speech in THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT, which ended with him saying the classic line, "My name is Andrew Shepherd, and I AM the President of the United States."

[KornKidJedi]

Ellen Burstyn's Speech in Requiem for a Dream, When Jared Leto visits her.

The dialogue between Brad Pitt and Edward Norton in the bathroom from Fight Club

Harvey Keitel screaming at Steve Buscemi after Tim Roth passes out in Reservoir Dogs

The dialogue between Amanda Plummer and Tim Roth in Pulp Fiction

[notchreturns]

I've always enjoyed Dennis Hopper's sicilian speech in True Romance.

Also, Hannibal's numerous rants in SOTL to Clarice.Those are priceless.

[BadCoverVersion]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by KornKidJedi:
Ellen Burstyn's Speech in Requiem for a Dream, When Jared Leto visits her.

The dialogue between Brad Pitt and Edward Norton in the bathroom from Fight Club

Harvey Keitel screaming at Steve Buscemi after Tim Roth passes out in Reservoir Dogs

The dialogue between Amanda Plummer and Tim Roth in Pulp Fiction</font>

Requiem is a fabulous one...found my particular favourite on IMDB...

"I'm somebody now, Harry. Everybody likes me...Soon, millions of people will see me and they'll all like me. I'll tell them about you, and your father, how good he was to us. Remember? It's a reason to get up in the morning. It's a reason to lose weight, to fit in the red dress. It's a reason to smile. It makes tomorrow all right. What have I got Harry, hmm? Why should I even make the bed, or wash the dishes? I do them, but why should I? I'm alone. Your father's gone, you're gone. I got no one to care for. What have I got, Harry? I'm lonely...I'm old."
"You got friends, Ma."
"Ah, It's not the same. They don't need me. I like the way I feel. I like thinking about the red dress and the television and you and your father. Now when I get the sun, I smile..."

I bloody adore that speech!



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[BakeTheMooCow]

My favorite is from Jerry Maguire :

Wait. Okay, okay. Okay. If this is where it has to happen, then this is where it has to happen. I'm not letting you get rid of me. How about that? This used to be my specialty. You know, I was good in the living room. They'd send me in there, I'd do it alone. And now I just... I don't know. But tonight, our little project, our company, had a very big night. A very, very big night. But it wasn't complete, wasn't nearly close to being in the same vicinity as complete, because I couldn't share it with you. I couldn't hear your voice, or laugh about it with you. I missed my wife. We live in a cynical world, a cynical, cynical world, and we work in a business of tough competitors. I love you. You complete me.


And from the masterpiece Se7en (possible spoilers)

-Innocent? Is that supposed to be funny? Look at the people I killed. An obese man, a disgusting man who could barely stand up... who if you saw him on the street, you'd point so your friends could mock him along with you. Who if you saw him while you were eating, you wouldn't be able to finish your meal. After him I picked the lawyer. And, you both must have been secretly thanking me for that one. This was a man who dedicated his life to making money by lying with every breath he could muster to keeping rapists and murderers on the streets.
-Murderers?
-A woman...
-Murderers like you?
-A woman... so ugly on the inside that she couldn't bare to go on living if she couldn't be beautiful on the outside. A drug dealer... a drug dealing pederast, actually. And, don't forget the disease spreading whore. Only in a world this shitty could you even try to say these were innocent people and keep a straight face. That's the point. You see a deadly sin on almost every street corner, and in every home, literally. And we tolerate it. Because it's common, it seems trivial, and we tolerate, all day long, morning, noon and night. Not anymore. I'm setting the example, and it's going to be puzzled over and studied and followed, from now on.
-Delusions of grandeur.
-You should be thanking me.
-And, why is that?
-You're going to be remembered, and it's all because of me. And, the only reason I'm here right now is because I wanted to be.

[Scarface98.9]

Sam Jackson's speech in Deep Blue Speech b4, well, you know it when u see it (the speech isn't that memorable, but the events afterwards)

Marlon Brando's improv'd "I coulda been a contenda" speech in On the Waterfront

[BadCoverVersion]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by BakeTheMooCow:
And from the masterpiece Se7en (possible spoilers)

-Innocent? Is that supposed to be funny? Look at the people I killed. An obese man, a disgusting man who could barely stand up... who if you saw him on the street, you'd point so your friends could mock him along with you. Who if you saw him while you were eating, you wouldn't be able to finish your meal. After him I picked the lawyer. And, you both must have been secretly thanking me for that one. This was a man who dedicated his life to making money by lying with every breath he could muster to keeping rapists and murderers on the streets.
-Murderers?
-A woman...
-Murderers like you?
-A woman... so ugly on the inside that she couldn't bare to go on living if she couldn't be beautiful on the outside. A drug dealer... a drug dealing pederast, actually. And, don't forget the disease spreading whore. Only in a world this shitty could you even try to say these were innocent people and keep a straight face. That's the point. You see a deadly sin on almost every street corner, and in every home, literally. And we tolerate it. Because it's common, it seems trivial, and we tolerate, all day long, morning, noon and night. Not anymore. I'm setting the example, and it's going to be puzzled over and studied and followed, from now on.
-Delusions of grandeur.
-You should be thanking me.
-And, why is that?
-You're going to be remembered, and it's all because of me. And, the only reason I'm here right now is because I wanted to be.[/B]</font>

This has to be one of the greatest speeches ever written...I can't believe I forgot this one!

The fantastic delivery only enhances the fucking awesome writing!

Oooooooh..I just love it...!!!

Good stuff.

[FeverDog420]

This is from Soderbergh's Schizopolis. It's not really a "speech" - just a funny monologue:

Dr. Jeffrey Korchak: [reading aloud] Dear Attractive Woman Number 2: Only once in my life have I responded to a person the way I've responded to you, but I've forgotten when it was or even if it was in fact me that responded. I may not know much, but I know that the wind sings your name endlessly, although with a slight lisp that makes it difficult to understand if I'm standing near an air conditioner. I know that your hair sits atop your head as though it could sit nowhere else. I know that your figure would make a sculptor cast aside his tools, injuring his assistant who was looking out the window instead of paying attention. I know that your lips are as full as that sexy french model's that I desperately want to fuck. I know that if for an instant I could have you lie next to me, or on top of me, or sit on me, or stand over me and shake, then I would be the happiest man in my pants. I know all of this, and yet you do not know me. Change your life; accept my love. Or, at least let me pay you to accept it.

Good stuff..

[SAI]

Slightly odd note to begin on. Two 'classics' from Plan 9 From Outer Space

CRISWELL
Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you
and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future
events such as these will affect you in the future. You are interested in the
unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now,
for the first time, we are bringing to you the full story of what happened on
that fateful day. We are giving you all the evidence, based only on the secret
testimonies of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The
incidents, the places, my friend we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Let us
punish the guilty, let us reward the innocent. My friend, can your heart stand
the shocking facts about grave robbers from outer space?


COL. EDWARDS
You speak of solaronite, but just what is it?

EROS
Take a can of your gasoline. Say this can of gasoline is the sun. Now you spread
a thin a line of it to a ball, representing the Earth. Now, the gasoline
represents the sunlight, the sun particles. Here we saturate the ball with the
gasoline, the sunlight. Then we put a flame to the ball. The flame will speedily
travel around the Earth, back along the line of gasoline to can, or the sun
itself. It will explode this source, and spread to every place that gasoline, or
sunlight, touches. Explode the sunlight here, Gentlemen, and you explode the
universe. Explode the sunlight here, and a chain reaction will occur, direct to
the sun itself. And to all the planets that sunlight touches. To every planet in
the universe. This why you must be stopped. This is why any means must be used
to stop you. In a friendly manner, or as it seems, you want it.


Now one that's actually good: Say Anything

LLOYD
You mean like career? Uh, I don't know. I've, I've thought
about this quite a bit sir, and I'd have to say considering
what's waiting out there for me, I don't want to sell anything,
buy anything or process anything as a career. I don't want to
sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or
processed, or... process anything sold, bought or processed, or
repair anything sold, bought or processed, you know, as a career
I don't want to do that. So, uh, my father's in the army, he
wants me to join, but I can't work for that corporation, so what
I've been doing lately is kickboxing, which is really a, uh, new
sport, but I think it's got a good future. As far as career
longevity goes, I don't really know, because, you know, you can't
really tell. Your training sticks as a fighter, you know,
but it's no good, you know, you have to be great, but I can't
really tell if I'm great until I've had a couple of pro fights.
But I haven't been knocked out yet. I don't know, I can't figure
it all out tonight sir, I'm going to hang with your daughter.

Cameron Crowe; The master



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[Romero&Juliet]

Cher's debate in Clueless

"okay. So. The 'Haiti-ans' want to come to america, but the government is all like 'what about the strain on our resources?' But its like, when I had a garden party for my fathers Birthday, the invitation said RSVP because it was like a sit down dinner: and people came that like, did NOT RSVP!
~I had to haul ass to the kitchen, re-arrange the food, re-dristribute the place settings....but by the end of the day it was like 'The More the Merrier!' So if the Government could get to the kitchen and Re-arrange some stuff, we could Certainly Party with the Haiti-ans.

AND MAY I REMIND YOU THAT IT DOES NOT SAY RSVP ON THE STATUE OF LIBERTY!

Thanks!

[thingsgoinon]

Arthur Kirkland in And Justice For All (opening statement to the jury) (HUGE END OF MOVIE SPOILER)

"Your Honor, Mr. Foreman, ladies and gentlemen of the Jury, my name is Arthur Kirkland, and I am the Defense Counsel for the Defendant, Judge Henry T. Fleming. Now, that man over there -- he's the prosecuting attorney, and he couldn't be happier today. He is a happy man today, because today he's going after a JUDGE, and if he gets him...if he gets him, he's gonna be a star. He's gonna have his name in this month's Law Review - Centerfold! Lawyer of the Month! Now, in order to win this case, he needs you, naturally. You're all he's got, believe me. So he's counting on tapping that emotion in you that says "Let's get somebody in power. Let's get a JUDGE." However, these proceedings are not about that. These proceedings are here to see that Justice is done. And Justice, as any reasonable person will tell you, is the finding of the Truth. And what is the Truth today? One truth, a tragic one, is that that girl has been beaten and raped. Another truth is that the prosecution doesn't have a witness, does not have one piece of substantiating evidence other than the testimony of the victim herself. Another truth is that my client voluntarily, and the prosecution is well aware of this fact, voluntarily took a lie detector test......told the truth! (Judge Rayford tells jury to disregard polygraph evidence)

Sorry, Your Honor....Let's get back to Justice. What is Justice? What is the intention of justice? The intention of justice is to see that the guilty people are punished and the innocent are freed. Simple, isn't it? Only it's not that simple. However, it is the Defense Counsel's duty to protect the rights of the individual, as it is the Prosecution's duty to uphold and defend the laws of the State. Justice for All. Only we have a problem here. And you know what it is? Both sides want to win. We want to win! We want to win regardless of the Truth! And we want to win regardless of Justice! Regardless of who's guilty or innocent! WINNING is everything! That man there [indicates DA Bowers] wants a win so badly today, it means so much to him, he is so carried away with the Prospect of winning, the IDEA, that he forgot something absolutely essential to today's proceeding. He forgot his case. He forgot to bring it. I don't know, I don't see it, do you? The prosecution's case! He's gotta have one. Not a witness, not one piece of substantiating evidence other than the testimony of the victim herself! Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I have a case to end all cases! I have witnesses for my client, I have character references, testimonials that are backed up from here to Washington DC! I got lie detector tests that are... (Judge Rayford warns again)

The one thing that bothered me, the one thing that stayed in my mind and I couldn't get rid of it, that haunted me, was why. Why would she lie? What was her motive for lying? If my client is innocent, she's lying, why? Was it blackmail? No. Was it jealousy? No. Yesterday I found out why. She doesn't have a motive, you know why? Because she's not lying... And ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the prosecution is not going to get that man today, no, because I'M GONNA GET HIM! MY CLIENT, THE HONORABLE HENRY T. FLEMING, SHOULD GO RIGHT TO FUCKING JAIL!THAT MAN IS GUILTY! THAT MAN, THERE, THAT MAN IS A SLIME! HE IS A *SLIME*! IF HE'S SUPPOSED TO GO FREE, THEN SOMETHING REALLY WRONG IS GOIN' ON HERE!YOU'RE out of order! YOU'RE out of order! THE WHOLE TRIAL is out of order! THEY'RE out of order! THAT man, that SICK, CRAZY, DEPRAVED man, RAPED and BEAT that woman there, and he'd LIKE to do it again...he TOLD me so!!! It's just a show! It's a show! It's "Let's Make A Deal"! "Let's Make A Deal"! Hey Frank, you wanna "Make A Deal"?! I got an insane judge who likes to beat the shit out of women! Whaddya wanna gimme Frank, 3 weeks probation?![to Judge Fleming] You, you sonofabitch, you! You're supposed to STAND for somethin'! You're supposed to PROTECT people! But instead you RAPE AND MURDER THEM! [dragged out of court by baliffs] You killed McCullough! You killed him! Hold it! Hold it! I JUST COMPLETED MY OPENING STATEMENT!"



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[SAI]

From American Beauty
LESTER (V.O.)
My name is Lester Burnham. This is my neighborhood. This is my street. This... is my life. I'm forty-two years old. In less than a year, I'll be dead.

LESTER (V.O.)
Of course, I don't know that yet.
And in a way, I'm dead already.

LESTER (V.O.)
(amused)
Look at me, jerking off in the shower.
(then)
This will be the high point of my day. It's all downhill from here.


From Magnolia (Not the exact speech, this is from the original script)

FRANK
In this big game that we play it is
not what you find and it's not what
you deserve - It's What You Take.
I'm Frank T.J. Mackey, Master of the Muffin
and author of the Seduce and Destroy System
of audio and videocassettes that will
teach you the techniques to have any
hard-body blonde dripping to wet your dock!
Bottom line? Language. The magical key
to unlocking any woman's analytical ability and tap directly into her hopes, wants,
fears, desires and her sweet little panties.
Learn how to make that lady - "friend" your
sex-starving-servant. Create an instant,
money-back guaranteed trance-like state
that'll have any little so and so just
begging for it.
I don't care about how you look, what car
you drive or what your last bank statement
says: "Seduce and Destroy," is gonna teach
you how to get that naughty sauce you want - fast!
(dramatic stop, then http://www.joblo.com/ubb/smile.gif
Hey -- how many more times do you need
to hear the all too famous line of:
"I just don't feel that way about you."


Frank
Respect the cock...
[Cheering]
And tame the cunt!
Tame it!
Take it on headfirst
With the skills that I will teach you at work
And say no!
No! No!
You will not control me! No!
You will not
Take my soul! No!
You will not win this game!
'Cause it's a game, guys.
You want to think
It's not, huh?
You want to think it's not, go back to the schoolyard
And you have that crush on big-titted mary jane.
[Cheering]
Respect the cock.
[Cheering]
You are embedding this thought.
I am the one who's in charge.
I am the one who says yes!
No!
Now!
Here!
[Applause]
'Cause it's universal, man.
It is evolutional, it is anthropological,
It is biological, !
It is animal. We...
[Moans]
Are...
[Panting]
Men!


Last one for now: From Clerks (Bad, bad language ahead)

RANDAL
(reading from list)
I need one each of the following
tapes: Whisper in the Wind, To Each
His Own, Put it Where It Doesn't
Belong, My Pipes Need Cleaning, All
Tit-Fucking, Volume Eight, I Need
Your Cock, Ass-Worshipping Rim-
Jobbers, My Cunt and Eight Shafts,
Cum Clean, Cum-Gargling Naked
Sluts, Cum Buns Three, Cumming in a
Sock, Cum on Eileen, Huge Black
Cocks with Pearly White Cum, Slam
It Up My Too-Loose Ass, Ass Blasters
in Outer Space, Blowjobs by Betsy,
Sucking Cock and Cunt, Finger My
Ass, Play with my Puss, Three on a
Dildo, Girls Who Crave Cock, Girls
Who Crave Cunt, Men Alone Two-The
K.Y. Connection, Pink Pussy Lips,
and All Holes Filled with Hard Cock.
Oh, and...
(to MOTHER)
What was the name of that movie?

MOTHER
(nearly dazed)
Happy Scrappy-The Hero Pup.

[thingsgoinon]

bump

Damn I can't find a transcription of it anywhere, but Cyrus's "Can You Dig It" speech from The Warriors is pretty powerful....



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[LAW]

Mr.X in JFK. I won't transcribe it because those who have heard it know what I mean. And it wasn't about him telling the truth, it was that his stream of consciousness, no matter how outlandish, seemed to make more sense than than any singularly supposed concrete fact included in the whole warren report. (Sorry, I refuse to type that with capitals)

[thingsgoinon]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by LAW:
warren report. (Sorry, I refuse to type that with capitals)</font>


HA !!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm with ya on that ........... HAHAHAHA http://www.joblo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif http://www.joblo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif http://www.joblo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif http://www.joblo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

magic bullet http://www.joblo.com/ubb/rolleyes.gif

[The Rainbow in the Dark]

Robert DeNiro's baseball speech in The Untouchables.

(No need to put it here. I'm sure you all know it.)

[ColinM]

Kevin Spacey's incredible monologue as John Doe in Se7en is the winner for me.

[Antonio]

Jules' tirades of Biblical proportions in PULP FICTION.

[MacReady]

There's a clever one in Caligula: "I have existed from the morning of the world, and I shall exist until the last star has fallen from the sky. Although I have taken the form of Gaius Caligula, I am all men, as I am no man-- and so, I am a God."

[chinton]

I cant believe nobodys mentioned the amazing monologue that ends American beauty

[rupert pupkin]

"Not from me asshole, you get no immunity from me.....every man i have ever put in prison...every cop who owes me a favour...every creep and scumbag who works the streets for a living will know the name of verbal kint......now you talk to me.... or that so called immunity theyve seen fit to grant you wont be worth the paper the contract put out on your life is printed on"

Chazz Palminteri

The Usual Suspects

[Rob Gordon]

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 streets, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air's unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit and watch our tee-vees while some local newscaster tells us 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's going crazy. So we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we live in gets smaller, and all we ask is please, at least leave us alone in our own living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my tee-vee and my hair-dryer 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 riot. I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to write your congressmen, 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 defense budget and the Russians and crime in the street. All I know is first you've got to get mad. You've got to say: "I'm a human being, goddammit. My life has value." So I want you to get up now. I want you to get out of your chairs and go to the window. Right now. I want you to go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell. I want you to yell: "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this any more!" Get up from your chairs. Go to the window. Open it. Stick your head out and yell and keep yelling! First, you've got to get mad! When you're mad, then we'll figure out what to do about the depression, and the inflation, and the oil crisis! Things have got to change, but first you've got to get mad! Go to the window, stick your head out, and yell: "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

- Howard Beale, "Network"

[rupert pupkin]

great quote rob

[Rob Gordon]

Originally posted by rupert pupkin
great quote rob

Thanks Rupert. I dig your style too man; my favorite speech from Usual Suspects, hands down.

And my runner-up:

What do we do? Well, Harvey and I...we sit in the bars...have a drink or two...play the juke box. And soon the faces of the other people in the bar turn towards mine, and they smile. And they're saying: 'We don't know your name mister, but you're all right.' Harvey and I warm ourselves in these golden moments. We've come as strangers - soon we have friends. They come over. They sit with us. They drink with us. They talk to us. They tell us about the great terrible things they've done and the big wonderful things they'll do. Their hopes, their regrets. Their loves, their hates. All very large mind you, because nobody ever brings anything small into a bar. Then I introduce them to Harvey, and he's bigger and grander than anything they've offered me. When they leave, they leave impressed. The same people seldom come back, but that's envy my dear. There's a little bit of envy in the best of us, and that's too bad, isn't it?
Why do I call him Harvey? Well, Harvey's his name.
How do I know that? Well, that's a rather interesting story Doctor. I was at the corner of _____ and _____. I'd just helped Ed Hickey into a taxi. Ed had been mixing his rye and his gin, and I felt he needed conveying. I was walking down the street when I heard a voice say: 'Good evening, Mr. Dowd'. I turned, and sure enough there was this big white rabbit leaning up against a lamppost. Well, I thought nothing of that. You see, when you've lived in a town as long as I've lived in this one, you get used to the fact that everybody knows your name. Well, naturally I went up to him. He said to me: 'Ed Hickey looked a little spiffed this evening, or could I be mistaken?' Well of course he was not mistaken. I think the world and all of Ed, but he was spiffed. Well, we got to talking like that. And then I said to him: 'You have me at a disadvantage. You know my name, I don't know yours.' And just like that he said 'What name do you like?' Well, I didn't even have to think abou that one. Harvey's always been my favorite name. So I said to him: 'Harvey.' And this is the really remarkable thing about the whole situation. He said to me: 'What a coincidence. My name happens to be Harvey.'

- Elwood P. Dowd, "Harvey"

[rupert pupkin]

Now, you're not gonna have a country that can make these kind of rules work, if you haven't got men that have learned to tell human rights from a punch in the nose. (The Senate applauds) It's a funny thing about men, you know. They all start life being boys. I wouldn't be a bit suprised if some of these Senators were boys once. And that's why it seemed like a pretty good idea for me to get boys out of crowded cities and stuffy basements for a couple of months out of the year. And build their bodies and minds for a man-sized job, because those boys are gonna be behind these desks some of these days. And it seemed like a pretty good idea, getting boys from all over the country, boys of all nationalities and ways of living. Getting them together. Let them find out what makes different people tick the way they do. Because I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a - a little lookin' out for the other fella, too...That's pretty important, all that. It's just the blood and bone and sinew of this democracy that some great men handed down to the human race, that's all. But of course, if you've got to build a dam where that boys camp ought to be, to get some graft to pay off some political army or something, well that's a different thing. Oh no! If you think I'm going back there and tell those boys in my state and say: 'Look. Now fellas. Forget about it. Forget all this stuff I've been tellin' you about this land you live in is a lot of hooey. This isn't your country. It belongs to a lot of James Taylors.' Oh no! Not me! And anybody here that thinks I'm gonna do that, they've got another thing comin'. (He whistles loudly with his fingers in his mouth, startling Senators who are dozing or reading other materials) That's all right. I just wanted to find out if you still had faces. I'm sorry gentlemen. I-I know I'm being disrespectful to this honorable body, I know that. I- A guy like me should never be allowed to get in here in the first place. I know that! And I hate to stand here and try your patience like this, but EITHER I'M DEAD RIGHT OR I'M CRAZY.

James Stewart

Mr Smith Goes to Washington

[Dirtbag]

Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.

A Few Good Men

[Raoul Duke]

Don't screw this up. Cause if you don't get into Honors Math in 7th grade, then you won't get in 8th grade, then not in 9th, and not in 10th, and you'll die poor and lonely.

- Bowling For Columbine

[JCLC11]

- Jerry Maguire:

Dorothy: It's my fault.
Jerry: What?
Dorothy: It's not fair to you. This whole thing.
Jerry: Tell me --- Let me help ---
Dorothy: I took advantage of you and worst of it all, I'm not alone. I did this with a kid. I was just on some wild ride where I thought I was in love enough for both of us. I pretended that proposal by the car was real and it might have just been a hypothetical. I did this. And at least I can do something about it now.
Jerry: I'm not a guy who runs. I stick.
Dorothy: Well I don't need you to "stick."
Jerry: What do you want . . .
Dorothy: I don't know.
Jerry: . . . My soul or something?
Dorothy: Why not?! I deserve that!
Jerry: What if I'm not built that way?
Dorothy: I think we made a mistake.
Jerry: What if it's true . . . "Great at friendship, bad at intimacy." I mean, come on. It's the theme of my bachelor film ---
Dorothy: I know. I watched it. I sort of know it by heart.
Jerry: I don't like to give up . . .
Dorothy: Please, Jerry. My need to make the best of things and your need to be "responsible" . . . if one of us doesn't say something about it now we could lose ten years being polite . . . Why don't we call this next road trip what it really is. A nice long break.
Jerry: What about Ray?
Dorothy: Well, you'll be friends . . . Of course you'll be friends.
Jerry: So this break is a break - up?
Dorothy: Come on, Jerry. You know this isn't easy for me. On the surface everything seems fine. I've got this great guy and he loves my kid . . . and he sure does like me alot. And I can't live that way . . . It's not how *I'm* built.

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Jerry: "Hello? Hello? I'm looking for my wife."

"Wait . . . O.K. O.K. O.K. If this is where it has to happen then this is where it has to happen. I'm not letting you get rid of me . . . How about that? This used to be my specialty, you know? I was good in the living room. They sent me in there and I'd do it alone. And now I just . . . I don't know. But tonight . . . our little project, our company, had a very big night. A very, very big night. But it wasn't complete. It wasn't nearly close to being in the same vicinity as complete because I couldn't share it with you. I couldn't hear your voice or laugh about it with you . . . I miss . . . I miss my wife. We live in a cynical world, a cynical world, and we work in a business of tough competitors. I love you. You . . . complete me. And I just had --- "

Dorothy: "Shutup. Just shutup. You had me at 'Hello.'"