Best monologue ever?

[PhiGam]

First four that came to mind for me:

Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday- "Inches"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9rFx6OFooCs&feature=related

Hugo Weaving in V For Vendetta- "Introduction by Alliteration"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uW6HbZXI9Y0

Denzel Washington in Remember the Titans- "Gettysburg"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...arch&plindex=0

Bill Pullman in Independence Day- "Mankind"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRGUqd_M6Mg

[cuteASAbug]

Billy Crystal from When Harry Met Sally:
Well, how about this way? I love that you get cold when it’s seventy-one degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you’re looking at me like I’m nuts. I love that after I spend a day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes, and I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it’s not because I’m lonely, and it’s not because it’s New Years Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of the life to start as soon as possible.

[squirrely girl]

any of the vagina monologues

[James]

The Vagina speaks?

Originally Posted by squirrely girl

any of the vagina monologues

[kathykd2005]

Yes, loud and clear. Vaginas ROAR!

[PeppyGPhiB]

Michael Douglas, as President Andrew Shephard in The American President:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112346/quotes

"For the last couple of months, Senator Rumson has suggested that being president of this country was, to a certain extent, about character, and although I have not been willing to engage in his attacks on me, I've been here three years and three days, and I can tell you without hesitation: Being President of this country is entirely about character. For the record: yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU. But the more important question is why aren't you, Bob? Now, this is an organization whose sole purpose is to defend the Bill of Rights, so it naturally begs the question: Why would a senator, his party's most powerful spokesman and a candidate for President, choose to reject upholding the Constitution? If you can answer that question, folks, then you're smarter than I am, because I didn't understand it until a few hours ago. America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can't just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the "land of the free". I've known Bob Rumson for years, and I've been operating under the assumption that the reason Bob devotes so much time and energy to shouting at the rain was that he simply didn't get it. Well, I was wrong. Bob's problem isn't that he doesn't get it. Bob's problem is that he can't sell it! We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, Bob Rumson is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things and two things only: making you afraid of it and telling you who's to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections. You gather a group of middle-aged, middle-class, middle-income voters who remember with longing an easier time, and you talk to them about family and American values and character. And wave an old photo of the President's girlfriend and you scream about patriotism and you tell them, she's to blame for their lot in life, and you go on television and you call her a whore. Sydney Ellen Wade has done nothing to you, Bob. She has done nothing but put herself through school, represent the interests of public school teachers, and lobby for the safety of our natural resources. You want a character debate, Bob? You better stick with me, 'cause Sydney Ellen Wade is way out of your league..."

Continues at the link.

[nittanyalum]

Macbeth from Macbeth
Lady Macbeth from Macbeth
Juliet from Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet from Hamlet
Oh, I could go on and on... that Shakespeare... monologue king.

Doesn't this thread belong under Entertainment?

[kathykd2005]

You took the words right off of my keys. Those are my favorite monologues!

[cuteASAbug]

Originally Posted by nittanyalum

Macbeth from Macbeth
Lady Macbeth from Macbeth
Juliet from Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet from Hamlet
Oh, I could go on and on... that Shakespeare... monologue king.

Doesn't this thread belong under Entertainment?

Don't forget Mark Antony's funeral oration from Julius Caesar.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by cuteASAbug

Don't forget Mark Antony's funeral oration from Julius Caesar.

Ugh, we had to memorize that in high school.

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him..."

[cuteASAbug]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

Ugh, we had to memorize that in high school.

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him..."

The evil that men do lives long after they are gone, the good is oft interred and forgotten. So let it be with Caesar...

[honeychile]

Spoken during Ken Burns' The Civil War, this is actually a letter written by Sullivan Ballou to his wife, a week prior to his death at the First Battle of Bull Run. It's the last two paragraphs that get to me!:

"Sullivan Ballou: July 14,1861, Washington DC.
Dear Sarah: The indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days - perhaps tomorrow. And lest I should not be able to write again, I feel impelled to write a few lines that may fall under your eye when I am no more.
I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not halt or falter. I know how strongly American Civilization now leans on the triumph of the Government, and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and sufferings of the Revolution. And I am willing - perfectly willing - to lay down all my joys in this life, to help maintain this Government, and to pay that debt.
Sarah my love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break; and yet my love of Country comes over me like a strong wind and bears me unresistibly on with all these chains to the battlefield.
The memories of all the blissful moments I have enjoyed with you come crowding over me, and I feel most deeply grateful to God and to you that I have enjoyed them so long. And how hard it is for me to give them up and burn to ashes the hopes of future years, when, God willing, we might still have lived and loved together, and seen our boys grown up to honorable manhood, around us. If I do not my dear Sarah, never forget how much I love you, and when my last breath escapes me on the battlefield, it will whisper your name. Forgive my many faults, and the many pains I have caused you. How thoughtless and foolish I have sometimes been!
But, O Sarah ! if the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those they loved, I shall always be with you; in the brightest day and in the darkest night....always, always. And when the a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath, and the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by. Sarah do not mourn me dead; think I am gone and wait for me, for we shall meet again..."

[honeychile]

In honor of the season, this is from Saturday Night Live, written by Steve Martin:

Steve Martin: "If I had one wish that I could wish this holiday season, it would be that all the children to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace. If I had two wishes I could make this holiday season, the first would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing in the spirit of harmony and peace. And the second would be for 30 million dollars a month to be given to me, tax-free in a Swiss bank account. You know, if I had three wishes I could make this holiday season, the first, of course, would be for all the children of the world to get together and sing, the second would be for the 30 million dollars every month to me, and the third would be for encompassing power over every living being in the entire universe. And if I had four wishes that I could make this holiday season, the first would be the crap about the kids definitely, the second would be for the 30 million, the third would be for all the power, and the fourth would be to set aside one month each year to have an extended 31-day orgasm, to be brought out slowly by Rosanna Arquette and that model Paulina-somebody, I can't think of her name. Of course my lovely wife can come too and she's behind me one hundred percent here, I guarantee it. Wait a minute, maybe the sex thing should be the first wish, so if I made that the first wish, because it could all go boom tomorrow, then what do you got, y'know? No, no, the kids, the kids singing would be great, that would be nice. But wait a minute, who am I kidding? They're not going to be able to get all those kids together. I mean, the logistics of the thing is impossible, more trouble than it's worth! So -- we reorganize! Here we go. First, the sex thing. We go with that. Second, the money. No, we got with the power second, then the money. And then the kids. Oh wait, oh jeez, I forgot about revenge against my enemies! Okay, I need revenge against all my enemies, they should die like pigs in hell! That would be my fourth wish. And, of course, my fifth wish would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace. Thank you everybody and Merry Christmas."

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by nittanyalum

Macbeth from Macbeth
Lady Macbeth from Macbeth
Juliet from Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet from Hamlet
Oh, I could go on and on... that Shakespeare... monologue king.

Doesn't this thread belong under Entertainment?

I love Mid Summer's Night Dream and Othello. Now that's entertainment!

[kathykd2005]

Out, out damned spot! Is there a Shakespeare thread? If not, we need one.