you think Shakespeare has a monopoly on
monologues think again you talking to me
you talking to me
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
movie monologues oh man I give the wash
teeth for this list we’re looking at
iconic film speeches that have stood the
test of time
fourth rule only two guys to a fight fit
rule one fight at a time fellas these
are the moments when characters finally
bare their souls I don’t give a shit
or at least make one heck of a threat
primal instincts to kill without feeling
without passion we’re not counting
voiceovers
so unfortunately Henry Hills monologues
don’t make the cut to me it meant being
somebody in the neighborhood that was
full of nobodies number 10
Hannibal’s analysis The Silence of the
Lambs
moaning basically an evil Sherlock
Holmes Hannibal Lecter can size you up
with one glance and a whiff of your
perfume you use have your skin green and
sometimes you wear out at a time but not
today it’s a handy skill when you’re a
psychopath but not that fun when you’re
an insecure rookie trying to outrun your
past you know how quickly the boys find
you all those tedious sticky fumbling
from the backseat of cars while you
dream of getting out and anywhere
getting all the way to the end after FBI
trainee Clarice Starling accidentally
offends this creepy cannibal he delivers
a spiteful speech that hits all her soft
spots you know what you look like to me
with your good bag and your cheap shoes
you look like a rube a while scrub
hustling around the little taste when
she strikes back
Clarice learns never to interrupt a
super villain when he’s monologuing a
census taken once tried to test me I ate
his liver with some fava beans and a
nice Chianti number 9 greed is good
Wall Street well ladies and gentlemen
we’re out here to indulge in fantasy but
in political and economic reality while
the 1980s gave us some awesome movies
and horrible fashions it’s probably best
remembered as the decade of greed you
only come that’s right you stockholder
and you are all being royally screwed
over by these these bureaucrats with
their their safe lunches their hunting
and fishing trips their their corporate
jets and golden parachutes and nobody
personifies materialism like Gordon
Gekko the new law of evolution in
corporate America seems to be survival
of the unfitness this conniving
corporate raider makes a living off the
buying and selling of others and thinks
scheming and selfishness are virtues I
am NOT a destroyer of companies I am a
liberator of them microphone in hand
Gekko sums up his philosophy in this big
scene with the chilling assertion that
greed is the key to success the point is
ladies and gentlemen that greed for lack
of a better word is good number eight a
new day will come the Lord of the Rings
the two towers
wearing evil incarnate around your neck
is no easy task and after falling under
the rings influence and nearly murdering
his best friend it’s not hard to see why
frodo baggins is down in the dumps let’s
play sure some fortunately Samwise
Gamgee is the kind of hobbit knows how
to give a rousing speech to snap his
friend out of his fog it’s like in the
great stories mr. fertile the ones that
really mattered full of darkness and
danger they were sometimes you didn’t
want to know the end as Frodo starts
doubting his quest what do we know the
lone – Sam Sam reminds him even though
things look dark and grim there’s still
something hopeful to hold on to but
there’s some good in this world mr.
Foyle number 7 the horror Apocalypse Now
when he sent to terminate a rogue
colonel captain Willard doesn’t expect a
lecture on ethics I’ve seen a horror
what is it you’ve seen but you have no
right to call me a murderer you have a
right to kill me but when he’s captured
by the ruthless Kurtz he learns a
frightening lesson on the nature of
horror horror has a face and you must
make a friend of horror horror and moral
terror in a truly terrifying speech
Kurtz remembers the atrocities he’s seen
and claims judgement has no place on the
battlefield we left the camp after we
inoculated the children for polio this
old man came running after us and he was
crying he couldn’t say we went back
there and they had come and hacked off
every inoculated are convinced soldiers
should check emotions at the door he
tries to persuade Willard that horror is
the key
to victory you have to have men who are
moral and at the same time were able to
utilize their primal instincts to kill
without feeling without passion number
six the USS Indianapolis Jaws I see some
in feminine balloon rude crude and
sporting the craziest sideburns since
Wolverine captain Quint seems a little
more than a crusty old kook with a
fondness for booze you wanna drink drink
your Lake I’ll drink to your leg okay so
we drink our legs until he recalls the
tragedy of his experience on the USS
Indianapolis Japanese submarine slammed
two torpedoes into her side chief was
coming back the island of Tinian the
lady just delivered the bomb Hiroshima
bomb with a captivated audience both on
and off screen
quick remembers the time he was
surrounded by hungry sharks after
helping to deliver parts of the atomic
bomb that hit Hiroshima you know thing
about a shaggy ship lifeless eyes black
eyes like a doll’s eye when he comes at
you doesn’t seem to be living until he
bites you those black eyes roll over
white and then not only does this
monologue ratchet up the tension it
tells us everything we need to know
about this grizzled fisherman no that
was the time I was most frightened
waiting for my turn
I’ll never put on our last check it
again sold $101 369 Canal the Sharks
took the rest June the 29th 1945 number
5 closing statement to kill a
mockingbird to begin with this case
should never have come to trial the
state has not produced one iota of
medical evidence at the crime Tom
Robinson is charged with ever took place
on trial for a crime you didn’t commit
better call Atticus Finch nothing but
pity in my heart for the chief witness
for the state this southern attorney
might seem soft-spoken but put him in a
courtroom and he’s the greatest order in
cinematic history and so a quiet humble
respectable Negro who has had the
unmitigated temerity to feel sorry for a
white woman has had to put his word
against to what defending a black man
falsely accused of rape Atticus delivers
an eloquent monologue on the meaning of
justice in our courts Oh created in
equal demanding fair and equal treatment
Atticus makes one last plea for Tom
Robinson’s innocence and it’s enough to
make you get up out of your seat cocked
do your duty I make a nice own soap
number for middle children of history
Fight Club and this is how I met Tyler
Durden
did you know if you mixed equal parts of
gasoline frozen orange juice concentrate
you can make napalm Tyler Durden is a
man who loves to talk
whether he’s doling out rules the first
rule of Fight Club is you do not talk
about Fight Club or dreaming about the
future in the world I see is talking out
through the damn canyon forests around
the room to Rockefeller Center this
savage soap salesman has quite a way
with words than Joan and the pony Durden
is especially loquacious when preaching
to his space monkeys goddamnit an entire
generation pumping gas waiting tables
slaves with white collars advertising
has us chasing cars and clothes working
jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t
need
frustrated with shallow consumer culture
and suffering from feelings of
emasculation tyler stirs up his
followers with a fiery speech claiming
they’ve been betrayed by society are the
middle children of history man no
purpose of place we have no Great War no
Great Depression our Great War is a
spiritual war How Great Depression is
our lives and now it’s time to fight
back all been raised on television to
believe that one day we’d all be
millionaires and movie gods and rock
stars but we won’t we’re slowly learning
that fact and we’re very very pissed off
number three the parole hearing the
Shawshank Redemption serving a life
sentence for murder
Ellis Boyd read reading is a weary soul
who spent 40 years behind bars
sit down of course he’s had his shot at
freedom the first time we meet read he’s
trying to convince a parole board he’s
rehabilitated learn my lesson I can
honestly say didn’t I’m a changed man
two rejections and another twenty years
later Bret stops telling the board what
they want to hear that kids long gone
this old man is all that’s left
I gotta live with that
instead he mourns the young man he once
was and finally accepts responsibility
for his crime rehabilitated it’s just a
bullshit word so you go on and stamp
your form Sonny and stop wasting my time
because I tell you the truth I don’t
give a shit
number two Ezekiel 25:17 pulp fiction oh
I’m sorry did I break your concentration
quentin tarantino’s crazy crime flick is
a movie jam-packed with awesome speeches
after all who can forget captain Coons
story about the gold watch well your dad
looked at it this watch was your
birthright
you’d be damned if any slopes gonna put
the greasy our hands on his boys
birthright so he hid it in one place he
knew he could hide something his ass but
the most memorable monologue is
delivered by the silver screens coolest
hit man Jules Winnfield you read the
Bible grim yes well there’s this passage
I got never had sort of bitches occasion
when Jules and his partner Vincent
tracked down a group of hoods who’ve
stolen their boss’s briefcase the
assassin goes into full profit mode and
lays down an angry sermon of Old
Testament proportions the path of the
righteous man is beset on all sides by
the inequities of the selfish and the
tyranny of evil men
and of course that can only end one way
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
thee before we unveil our top pick here
are a few honorable mentions the inches
we need are everywhere around us they’re
in every break of the game every minute
every second only Tyson there is no
nobility in poverty I’ve been a rich man
and I have been a poor man and I choose
rich every time do you think I know the
first thing about how hard your life has
been how you feel who you are because I
heard all of the twist does that
encapsulate you did you know that the
first matrix was designed to be a
perfect human world where none suffered
where everyone would be happy it was a
disaster no one would accept the program
entire crops were lost you
Montgomery Brogan
you had it all and you threw it away you
dumb I’ve seen things you people
wouldn’t believe attack ships on fire
off the shoulder of Orion
number one the Barbour speech the Great
Dictator
you must speak my god you must it’s not
only oh it’s ironic our top pick is
spoken by a silent movie star but the
Great Dictator was actually Charlie
Chaplin’s first speaking role and when
the Little Tramp finally opened his
mouth he had a lot to say I’m sorry I
don’t want to be an emperor that’s not
my business I don’t want to rule or
conquer anyone I should like to help
everyone if possible Jew Gentile black
man white playing a Jewish barber
mistaken for a mustachioed dictator
Chaplin uses his power to repeal the
Emperor’s fascist laws soldiers don’t
give yourselves to brutes men who
despise you enslave you who regiment
your lives tell you what to do what to
think of what to feel who drill you diet
you treat you like cattle use you as
cannon fodder don’t give yourselves to
these unnatural men machine men with
machine minds and machine hearts
addressing millions over the radio the
barber makes an impassioned plea for
love Liberty and world peace let us
fight to free the world to do away with
national barriers to do away with greed
with hate and intolerance let us fight
for a world of reason a world where
science and progress will lead to all
men’s happiness
do you agree with our list let us all
unite what are your favorite movie
monologues I hit this uncomfortable hunk
of metal up my ass two years for more
awesome top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
you
monologues think again you talking to me
you talking to me
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
movie monologues oh man I give the wash
teeth for this list we’re looking at
iconic film speeches that have stood the
test of time
fourth rule only two guys to a fight fit
rule one fight at a time fellas these
are the moments when characters finally
bare their souls I don’t give a shit
or at least make one heck of a threat
primal instincts to kill without feeling
without passion we’re not counting
voiceovers
so unfortunately Henry Hills monologues
don’t make the cut to me it meant being
somebody in the neighborhood that was
full of nobodies number 10
Hannibal’s analysis The Silence of the
Lambs
moaning basically an evil Sherlock
Holmes Hannibal Lecter can size you up
with one glance and a whiff of your
perfume you use have your skin green and
sometimes you wear out at a time but not
today it’s a handy skill when you’re a
psychopath but not that fun when you’re
an insecure rookie trying to outrun your
past you know how quickly the boys find
you all those tedious sticky fumbling
from the backseat of cars while you
dream of getting out and anywhere
getting all the way to the end after FBI
trainee Clarice Starling accidentally
offends this creepy cannibal he delivers
a spiteful speech that hits all her soft
spots you know what you look like to me
with your good bag and your cheap shoes
you look like a rube a while scrub
hustling around the little taste when
she strikes back
Clarice learns never to interrupt a
super villain when he’s monologuing a
census taken once tried to test me I ate
his liver with some fava beans and a
nice Chianti number 9 greed is good
Wall Street well ladies and gentlemen
we’re out here to indulge in fantasy but
in political and economic reality while
the 1980s gave us some awesome movies
and horrible fashions it’s probably best
remembered as the decade of greed you
only come that’s right you stockholder
and you are all being royally screwed
over by these these bureaucrats with
their their safe lunches their hunting
and fishing trips their their corporate
jets and golden parachutes and nobody
personifies materialism like Gordon
Gekko the new law of evolution in
corporate America seems to be survival
of the unfitness this conniving
corporate raider makes a living off the
buying and selling of others and thinks
scheming and selfishness are virtues I
am NOT a destroyer of companies I am a
liberator of them microphone in hand
Gekko sums up his philosophy in this big
scene with the chilling assertion that
greed is the key to success the point is
ladies and gentlemen that greed for lack
of a better word is good number eight a
new day will come the Lord of the Rings
the two towers
wearing evil incarnate around your neck
is no easy task and after falling under
the rings influence and nearly murdering
his best friend it’s not hard to see why
frodo baggins is down in the dumps let’s
play sure some fortunately Samwise
Gamgee is the kind of hobbit knows how
to give a rousing speech to snap his
friend out of his fog it’s like in the
great stories mr. fertile the ones that
really mattered full of darkness and
danger they were sometimes you didn’t
want to know the end as Frodo starts
doubting his quest what do we know the
lone – Sam Sam reminds him even though
things look dark and grim there’s still
something hopeful to hold on to but
there’s some good in this world mr.
Foyle number 7 the horror Apocalypse Now
when he sent to terminate a rogue
colonel captain Willard doesn’t expect a
lecture on ethics I’ve seen a horror
what is it you’ve seen but you have no
right to call me a murderer you have a
right to kill me but when he’s captured
by the ruthless Kurtz he learns a
frightening lesson on the nature of
horror horror has a face and you must
make a friend of horror horror and moral
terror in a truly terrifying speech
Kurtz remembers the atrocities he’s seen
and claims judgement has no place on the
battlefield we left the camp after we
inoculated the children for polio this
old man came running after us and he was
crying he couldn’t say we went back
there and they had come and hacked off
every inoculated are convinced soldiers
should check emotions at the door he
tries to persuade Willard that horror is
the key
to victory you have to have men who are
moral and at the same time were able to
utilize their primal instincts to kill
without feeling without passion number
six the USS Indianapolis Jaws I see some
in feminine balloon rude crude and
sporting the craziest sideburns since
Wolverine captain Quint seems a little
more than a crusty old kook with a
fondness for booze you wanna drink drink
your Lake I’ll drink to your leg okay so
we drink our legs until he recalls the
tragedy of his experience on the USS
Indianapolis Japanese submarine slammed
two torpedoes into her side chief was
coming back the island of Tinian the
lady just delivered the bomb Hiroshima
bomb with a captivated audience both on
and off screen
quick remembers the time he was
surrounded by hungry sharks after
helping to deliver parts of the atomic
bomb that hit Hiroshima you know thing
about a shaggy ship lifeless eyes black
eyes like a doll’s eye when he comes at
you doesn’t seem to be living until he
bites you those black eyes roll over
white and then not only does this
monologue ratchet up the tension it
tells us everything we need to know
about this grizzled fisherman no that
was the time I was most frightened
waiting for my turn
I’ll never put on our last check it
again sold $101 369 Canal the Sharks
took the rest June the 29th 1945 number
5 closing statement to kill a
mockingbird to begin with this case
should never have come to trial the
state has not produced one iota of
medical evidence at the crime Tom
Robinson is charged with ever took place
on trial for a crime you didn’t commit
better call Atticus Finch nothing but
pity in my heart for the chief witness
for the state this southern attorney
might seem soft-spoken but put him in a
courtroom and he’s the greatest order in
cinematic history and so a quiet humble
respectable Negro who has had the
unmitigated temerity to feel sorry for a
white woman has had to put his word
against to what defending a black man
falsely accused of rape Atticus delivers
an eloquent monologue on the meaning of
justice in our courts Oh created in
equal demanding fair and equal treatment
Atticus makes one last plea for Tom
Robinson’s innocence and it’s enough to
make you get up out of your seat cocked
do your duty I make a nice own soap
number for middle children of history
Fight Club and this is how I met Tyler
Durden
did you know if you mixed equal parts of
gasoline frozen orange juice concentrate
you can make napalm Tyler Durden is a
man who loves to talk
whether he’s doling out rules the first
rule of Fight Club is you do not talk
about Fight Club or dreaming about the
future in the world I see is talking out
through the damn canyon forests around
the room to Rockefeller Center this
savage soap salesman has quite a way
with words than Joan and the pony Durden
is especially loquacious when preaching
to his space monkeys goddamnit an entire
generation pumping gas waiting tables
slaves with white collars advertising
has us chasing cars and clothes working
jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t
need
frustrated with shallow consumer culture
and suffering from feelings of
emasculation tyler stirs up his
followers with a fiery speech claiming
they’ve been betrayed by society are the
middle children of history man no
purpose of place we have no Great War no
Great Depression our Great War is a
spiritual war How Great Depression is
our lives and now it’s time to fight
back all been raised on television to
believe that one day we’d all be
millionaires and movie gods and rock
stars but we won’t we’re slowly learning
that fact and we’re very very pissed off
number three the parole hearing the
Shawshank Redemption serving a life
sentence for murder
Ellis Boyd read reading is a weary soul
who spent 40 years behind bars
sit down of course he’s had his shot at
freedom the first time we meet read he’s
trying to convince a parole board he’s
rehabilitated learn my lesson I can
honestly say didn’t I’m a changed man
two rejections and another twenty years
later Bret stops telling the board what
they want to hear that kids long gone
this old man is all that’s left
I gotta live with that
instead he mourns the young man he once
was and finally accepts responsibility
for his crime rehabilitated it’s just a
bullshit word so you go on and stamp
your form Sonny and stop wasting my time
because I tell you the truth I don’t
give a shit
number two Ezekiel 25:17 pulp fiction oh
I’m sorry did I break your concentration
quentin tarantino’s crazy crime flick is
a movie jam-packed with awesome speeches
after all who can forget captain Coons
story about the gold watch well your dad
looked at it this watch was your
birthright
you’d be damned if any slopes gonna put
the greasy our hands on his boys
birthright so he hid it in one place he
knew he could hide something his ass but
the most memorable monologue is
delivered by the silver screens coolest
hit man Jules Winnfield you read the
Bible grim yes well there’s this passage
I got never had sort of bitches occasion
when Jules and his partner Vincent
tracked down a group of hoods who’ve
stolen their boss’s briefcase the
assassin goes into full profit mode and
lays down an angry sermon of Old
Testament proportions the path of the
righteous man is beset on all sides by
the inequities of the selfish and the
tyranny of evil men
and of course that can only end one way
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
thee before we unveil our top pick here
are a few honorable mentions the inches
we need are everywhere around us they’re
in every break of the game every minute
every second only Tyson there is no
nobility in poverty I’ve been a rich man
and I have been a poor man and I choose
rich every time do you think I know the
first thing about how hard your life has
been how you feel who you are because I
heard all of the twist does that
encapsulate you did you know that the
first matrix was designed to be a
perfect human world where none suffered
where everyone would be happy it was a
disaster no one would accept the program
entire crops were lost you
Montgomery Brogan
you had it all and you threw it away you
dumb I’ve seen things you people
wouldn’t believe attack ships on fire
off the shoulder of Orion
number one the Barbour speech the Great
Dictator
you must speak my god you must it’s not
only oh it’s ironic our top pick is
spoken by a silent movie star but the
Great Dictator was actually Charlie
Chaplin’s first speaking role and when
the Little Tramp finally opened his
mouth he had a lot to say I’m sorry I
don’t want to be an emperor that’s not
my business I don’t want to rule or
conquer anyone I should like to help
everyone if possible Jew Gentile black
man white playing a Jewish barber
mistaken for a mustachioed dictator
Chaplin uses his power to repeal the
Emperor’s fascist laws soldiers don’t
give yourselves to brutes men who
despise you enslave you who regiment
your lives tell you what to do what to
think of what to feel who drill you diet
you treat you like cattle use you as
cannon fodder don’t give yourselves to
these unnatural men machine men with
machine minds and machine hearts
addressing millions over the radio the
barber makes an impassioned plea for
love Liberty and world peace let us
fight to free the world to do away with
national barriers to do away with greed
with hate and intolerance let us fight
for a world of reason a world where
science and progress will lead to all
men’s happiness
do you agree with our list let us all
unite what are your favorite movie
monologues I hit this uncomfortable hunk
of metal up my ass two years for more
awesome top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
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