11 Great Movie Monologues

I don't have to tell you that things are bad, everyone knows things are bad, it's a depression, everyone is out of work or afraid to lose it, the dollar buys nickels, the banks are failing, the merchants have a gun Under the counter, the punks are going crazy. on the street and no one anywhere seems to know what to do and there is no end to it, we know the air is not fit to breathe and our food is not fit to eat, we sit and watch TV while a local news anchor tells us that today we had 15 homicides and 63 violent crimes as if that's how 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 live in is getting smaller and all we say is please at least leave us alone in our living rooms, let me have my toaster, my television 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 angry. I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to travel. I don't want you to write to your congressman because he wouldn't know what to tell you. write I don't know what to do with the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street all I know is first you have to get angry you have to say I'm a human being god Damn my life has value so I want get up now. I want you all to get up from your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window.

She opens it, sticks her head out and screams. I'm as angry as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore. I want you to get up right now, get up, go to your windows, open them, stick your head out and scream. I'm as angry as hell and I'm not going. to hold on longer things have to change how many stations does this go to what did he do I know he's going to louisville in atlanta we're not going to hold on to this anymore so we'll figure out what to do with the depression and the inflation and the oil get up from the crisis chairs open the door window sticks his head out and screams and say I miss mine and I'm not going to take this anymore I know what you're thinking, punk, are you thinking that he fires six shots or just five now to tell you the truth, I forgot about myself and all this excitement, but this being a 44 Magnum, the most powerful gun in the world and it will blow your mind, you have to ask yourself the question: am I feeling? luck, well, punk, okay, it's three in the morning, you know I, uh, came up to your house, dad, they told me she was here, it's 3 am, kid, it's Adrian, she's a good girl , I, you know, I feel sorry for the body.

I can't do anything with that, I accept it. I'd like to tell you something once and then I won't say it again, but Rocky had another chance, it's a second chance at, uh, I don't know, the biggest title in the world. world and you're going to be exchanging blows with the most dangerous fighter in the world and in case you know your brain isn't working, this is just all happening too soon and you're not ready, you're not around. You're in shape, so I'm telling you, you know, for the love of God, why don't you get up and fight this guy hard like you've done before?

That was beautiful, but don't lie in front of them like I don't know. some kind of mongrel or something because he's going to kick your face to pieces, that's right, this guy just doesn't want to win, you know he wants to bury it, he wants to humiliate her, he wants to prove to the whole world that it was nothing more than something. a little weird the first time but he said once you're lucky well not now I don't want to get mad in a biblical place like this but I think you're so much more than that guy so much but now wait a minute if you want to ruin it if you want ruin this uh damn, I'll ruin it with you Do you want to stay here?

I'll stay with you. I'll stay with you. I am free. I have to lose. I guess this is just another lost cause. for the only reason a man fights for them because of one simple rule, love your neighbor and in this hate filled world today, a man who knows that rule has

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confidence, you know that rule, lord Payne and I love you for just like my father did and you know you fight for lost causes harder than any other yes you even die for them a man we both know mr bay you think I'm licked everyone thinks I'm well lit No I'm licked and I'll stay here and fight for this lost cause, even if this room is filled with lies like this and the tailors and all their armies come marching into this place, someone will listen to me, the people will come, they will come. to Iowa for reasons they can't even understand, they come up to your driveway without knowing for sure why they do it, they will arrive at your door as innocent as children longing for the past, of course, we won't care if you look. around you you will say that it is only twenty dollars per person they will ignore the money without even thinking about it but it is money what they have and peace they like ray simply sign the papers and walk to the stands they sit in their shirt sleeves On a perfect afternoon, discover They have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, so they sat as kids and cheered on their heroes and watched the game.

It will be as if you have immersed yourself in magical waters. The memories will be so thick you could wipe them off your face ray when the bank opens in the morning they will repossess people will come ray you are broke ray sell now or lose everything the only constant through all the years ray has been baseball America has Ruled like an army of steamrollers, it has been erased like a chalkboard rebuilt and erased again, but baseball has marked time, this field, this game is part of our ray of the past, reminds us of all that was once good and it could be again. oh, people will come, people will definitely come from the most ancient times, people danced for various reasons, they danced in prayer or so that their crops would be abundant or so that their hunting would be good and they danced to keep themselves in good physical shape and to show themselves . their community spirit and they danced to celebrate and that's the dance we're talking about, haven't they told us?

And in Psalm 149 we praise you, the Lord, sing to the Lord a new song, let them praise his name in the dance, amen, amen. was king david king david whom we read about in samuel and and and what did david do what did david do what did david do what david danced before the lord with all his strength jumping and dancing before the lord jumping and dancing in ecclesiastes assures us that there is a time for each purpose under the sky a time to laugh and a time to cry a time to cry and there is a time to dance and there was a time for this balloon I no longer see this is our time to dance it is our way of celebrating life this is how it was at the beginning This is how it has always been, this is how it should be now Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure It is our light It is not our darkness What scares us the most You are playing small You are of no use to the world There is nothing from enlightened to shrinking so that other people don't feel insecure around you we were all meant to shine like children do it's not just in some of us it's in all of us and when we let our own light shine we unconsciously give permission to others people to do the same as we free ourselves from our own fear, our presence automatically frees others sir, I just want to say thank you, you saved my life, so what is this? taste is the moment of choice between guys this is very nice you have something with swans is this like a fetish is something like maybe we need to spend some time thinking about what you told me the other day about my painting was standing middle of the night Thinking about it something occurred to me, I fell into a deep, peaceful sleep and I haven't thought about you since you know what happened to me oh, you're just a kid, you don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about . about why, thank you, okay, you've never left Boston, no, so if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me detailed information about every art book ever written, Michelangelo, I know a lot about him, his work life, his political aspirations, him and the pope sexual orientation everything works fine I bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel you never actually stood there and looked at that beautiful ceiling seen that if I ask you about women you'll probably give me a curriculum are your personal favorites, you may have even been laid down a few times, but you can't tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel really happy, you're a tough kid.

I ask you why you probably throw. shakespeare looks at me once again in the gap dear friends, but you have never been close to one, you have never held your best friend's head in your lap and seen him gasp his last breath looking to you for help, i ask you about love, I probably quote Me a sonnet, but you have never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. You met someone who could level you with their eyes feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. I could rescue you from the depths of hell and you wouldn't do it. you know what it's like to be her angel to have that love for her to be there forever through anything through cancer you would know sleeping sitting in a hospital room for two months holding her hand because the doctors could see in your eyes that the terms of the visit the hours don't apply to you you don't know about real loss because that only happens when you love something more than you love yourself I doubt you've ever dared to love someone so much I look at you I don't see a intelligent and confident man I see a cocky and scared child, but you are a genius, well, no one denies that no one could understand your depths, but you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine, you destroyed my life.

You're an orphan right, you think I know the first thing about how difficult your life has been, how you feel about who you are because I read everything with a twist, does that sum you up personally? I don't give a damn about all that because you know. What I can't learn anything about you, I can't read in some book unless you want to talk about yourself, who you are and I'm fascinated by what I am, but you don't want to do that, do your sport. I'm terrified of what you might say, your head of the movement, I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor.

That's none of my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I would like to help everyone if possible. Jewish Gentile, black white man. We all want to help each other. We are human beings like this, we want to live off the happiness of others, not the misery of others, we do not want to hate or despise each other. In this world, there is room for everyone and the good land is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful but we have lost the way greed has poisoned the souls of men it has entrenched the world with hatred it has led us to misery and bloodshed we have developed speed but we have locked ourselves into machinery that gives us abundance we It has left us in misery our knowledge has made us cynical Our intelligence is harsh and cruel We think too much and feel too little More machinery We need humanity more than intelligence We need kindness and gentleness Without these qualities life will be violent and everything will be lost The airplane and the radio have brought us closer the very nature of these inventions cry out for the goodness of men cry out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all even now my voice reaches millions around the world millions of desperate men women and small children victims of a system that causes men to torture and imprison innocent people to those who can hear me I tell you not to despair the misery that is now upon us is nothing more than the passing of greed the bitterness of men who fear the path of progress human, the hatred of men will pass and the dictators will die and the power that they took from the people will return to the people and as long as men die, freedom will never perish.

Soldiers, do not surrender to the brutal men who despise you, enslave those who rule your lives. They tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who pierces you, kills you, treats you like cattle, uses you as a cannon father, do not give yourself over to these unnatural men, machine men with machine minds and hearts, you are not machines. you are not cattle you are men you have the love of humanity in your hearts you do not hate only the unloved you hate the unloved and the unnatural soldiers do not fight for slavery fight for freedom in chapter 17 of Saint Luke it is written The kingdom of God is within man, not in one man or in a group of men but in all men, in you, the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness, you, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful.

To make this life a wonderful adventure then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power, let us all unite, let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men the opportunity to work, that will give them the future and old age. of security for the promise of these things the brutes have risen to power but they lie they do not fulfill that promise they will never the dictators will free themselves but they enslave the people now let's fight to fulfill that promise let's fight to free the world to end it with national barriers to end with greed with hatred andintolerance let's fight for a world of reason a world where science and progress will lead to the happiness of all male soldiers in the name of democracy let's all unite you won't believe this but you used to fit right here I hold up and tell your mother this child He will be the best boy in the world this boy will be someone better than anyone has ever known and you grew up well and wonderfully it was

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just to watch every day it was like a privilege then the time came for you to be your own man and conquer the world and you did it, but at some point you changed, you stopped being you, you let people put a finger in your face and tell you that you're no good and when things got tough, you started looking for something to blame, like a big shadow, let me tell you something you already know, the world is not all sunshine and rainbows, it is a very bad and unpleasant place and I don't care how tough you are, it will defeat you. and keep you there permanently if you let it, you, me or no one will hit you as hard as life, but it's not about how hard you hit, it's about how hard you can be hit and keep moving forward, how much you can endure and maintain.

Moving forward, this is how you win now, if you know what you're worth, now go out and get what you're worth, but you have to be willing to take the hits and not point fingers saying you're not where you want to be. because of him or her or anyone cowards do that and that's not you you are better than that I will always love you no matter what happens you are my son you are my blood you are the best of my life, but until you start believing in You yourself will have a life, don't forget to visit your mother.

Oh, she's fine. I'm putting cases on everyone. Hey? Do you think you can do this? If you believe. You can do this to me You'll be playing basketball at Pelican Bay when I'm done with your shoe program 23 hour lockout I'm the man in this piece You'll never see the lighter guy you think I'm with The police I run here You just live here, yeah It's true, you better go, go and go because I'm going to burn this. King Kong doesn't have me on top