Favorite Monologues

[k4ng]

So next quarter at the shiny sunny UCSB, I'm taking an acting & directing class. It needs to not be from a recent movie (because we don't want to emulate another performer) and it can't be from something really famous. No poems or historical speeches.

Could you link me to some of your favorite monologues?

[antibiker]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaG30W_1HP4

[dh_jin]

Richard E Grant, Withnail and I (1987): . What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a God! The beauty of the world, paragon of animals; and yet to me, what is this quintessence of dusk. Man delights not me, no, nor women neither, nor women neither.

Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry (1971): 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 as 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?

Ewan McGregor, Trainspotting (1996): Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family, Choose a big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends... Choose your future. Choose life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx-iQifANlw&eurl=http://www.altiustutasarim.com/notdefteri/arsiv/2007/02/top_10_greatest_film_speeches.php

Samuel L Jackson, Pulp Fiction (1994): 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 attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUT6s2fQGIw&eurl=http://www.altiustutasarim.com/notdefteri/arsiv/2007/02/top_10_greatest_film_speeches.php

[heyseuss]

I don't like either Danni or Kylie.

[wakuseibaka]

This one may be familiar:

"Rorschach's Journal October 12, 1985.

Dog carcass in alley this morning. Tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen it's 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 look down and whisper 'no.'

They had a choice, all of them. They could have followed in the footsteps of men like my father or President Truman. Decent men who believed in a days work for a days pay. Instead they followed the droppings of lechers and communists and didn't realize the trail led over a precipice until it was too late. Don't tell me they didn't have a choice.

Now the whole world stands on the brink, looking down into bloody hell. All those liberals, intellectuals, and smooth-talkers. And all of a sudden nobody can think of anything to say."

Yeah, that's from memory. I'm a dork.

I'll try to think of better ones.

EDIT: Forgot Kevin Smith's fantastic monologues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBlA_fsi_VE

[pruben]

So if You wake up one morning and it is a particular beautiful day, you'll know we made it. OK, I'm signing out (Ending of Sunshine) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQeLo0bvadc
Ending of No Country for Old Men http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrC7KRDy3w8
No Hay Banda scene (Mulholland Dr.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAtnOQqHLaQ&feature=related

[skin87]

It's not from a film, but for my class when I had to perform a monologue I chose one from a novel called Once A Runner.

It is simply that we can all be good boys and wear our letter sweaters around and get our little degrees and find some nice girl to settle, you know, down with... take up what a friend of ours calls the hearty challenges of lawn care... Or we can blaze! Become legends in our own time, strike fear in the heart of mediocre talent everywhere! We can scald dogs, put records out of reach! Make the stands gasp as we blow into an unearthly kick from three hundred yards out! We can become God's own messengers delivering the dreaded scrolls! We can race dark Satan himself till he wheezes fiery cinders down the back straightaway....They'll speak our names in hushed tones, 'those guys are animals' they'll say! We can lay it on the line, bust a gut, show them a clean pair of heels. We can sprint the turn on a spring breeze and feel the winter leave our feet! We can, by God, let our demons loose and just wail on!

[errornix]

Taxi Driver is full of them. Plus there's always Bruce Campbell's "This is my boomstick!" speech.

[d1whowas]

Rutger Hauer at the end of Blade Runner:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_saUN4j7Gw

Henry Fonda's speech at the end of The Grapes of Wrath (can't find the video)

Alec Baldwin in Glen Gary Glen Ross:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AXTx4PcKI

Bill Pullman in Independence Day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRGUqd_M6Mg

and, of course, the St. Crispin's Day Speech:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAvmLDkAgAM

[d1whowas]

Forgot one, the President's Speech in Armageddon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCJeR0UebR8

[d1whowas]

Last time, I promise. Sean Astin at the end of Two Towers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hf3aKLSbys

Robert Shaw in Jaws:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5ACYu_ZNNA