I need references to some well written movie rants or soliloquies.

[Ilsa]

I have the Good Will Hunting rant and the one where Alex (Cher) tells off Daryl (Jack Nicholson) in Witches of Eastwick. What are some other good speeches? Oh yeah, I just remembered the one from The American President.

[_testify_]

1. As Good As It Gets has great dialogue

especially Greg Kinnear's character.

Also, everything said by every character in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

[bigwillq]

2. I hated that movie.

As Good as it gets.

How the hell did Helen Hunt win the oscar? She couldn't even get her accent right! :mad:

[Ilsa]

4. I tend to think she's a bit overrated also.

I have a hard time thinking of her as being in character, no matter which movie she's in. She seems like the same person in every one of them.

[bertha katzenengel]

46. Tits.

Sorry, mods. But remember the wet t-shirt scene?

Okay, I don't really think that Helen Hunt got her Oscar because of that scene. This comment was totally unfair. I wrote it for the laugh value. I bet no one laughed.

I think she got the Oscar because she is a good actress, she acted the part very well, and the Oscar voting is a poularity contest among the elite of the AMPAS.

"FUCKING HMO BASTARD PIECES OF SHIT!!"

[Ilsa]

3. LOTR - I love the way you think! eom

[Beaverhausen]

5. Moonstruck: "Love don't make things nice, it ruins everything!

I love this speech- Nicholas Cage to Cher's character:

"Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and *die*. The storybooks are *bullshit*. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and *get* in my bed!"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093565/quotes

[Beaverhausen]

6. Here's the one from American President

I think this is the one you mean:

America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You've got to want it bad, because 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 is 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 cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Now show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then you can stand up and sing about the 'land of the free.'"

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

[azmouse]

12. That's one of my favorites!

[DerekG]

7. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

In the pantheon of villainous diatribes, Ricardo Montalban's Melville interpretations reign supreme.

There's a reason why Shatner was screaming "Khhhaaaaannnnnnn!!!" at the top of his lungs.

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. These may not be quite what you're looking for

But I'm in a baseball frame of mind. :D

I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions, and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms, and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I heard that, I gave Jesus a chance. But it just didn't work out between us. The Lord laid too much guilt on me. I prefer metaphysics to theology. You see, there's no guilt in baseball, and it's never boring... which makes it like sex. There's never been a ballplayer slept with me who didn't have the best year of his career. Making love is like hitting a baseball: you just gotta relax and concentrate. Besides, I'd never sleep with a player hitting under .250... not unless he had a lot of RBIs and was a great glove man up the middle. You see, there's a certain amount of life wisdom I give these boys. I can expand their minds. Sometimes when I've got a ballplayer alone, I'll just read Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman to him, and the guys are so sweet, they always stay and listen. 'Course, a guy'll listen to anything if he thinks it's foreplay. I make them feel confident, and they make me feel safe, and pretty. 'Course, what I give them lasts a lifetime; what they give me lasts 142 games. Sometimes it seems like a bad trade. But bad trades are part of baseball - now who can forget Frank Robinson for Milt Pappas, for God's sake? It's a long season and you gotta trust. I've tried 'em all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

~Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon), "Bull Durham"

Well, I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

~Crash Davis (Kevin Costner), ibid.

Ray — people will come, Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. "It's only $20 per person." They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirt sleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.

Terence Mann (James Earl Jones), "Field of Dreams"

[Beaverhausen]

9. Bull Durham is one of my all time fav movies!!!

"Oh my!"

[Ilsa]

18. Thanks, some of the language may be too ripe for these

gals I'll be posting for. But my first one, from Witches of Eastwick, got lots of laughs:

I do appreciate your directness, Daryl. And I will try to be direct and honest with you, too. I think... no, I know. I am absolutely sure that you are the most unattractive man I have ever met. You are vulgar, stupid, insensitive, selfish, egotistical, you have no taste, a lousy sense of humor and you smell. You are physically repulsive, intellectually retarded, and morally reprehensible. In the short time that we have been together, you have demonstrated every loathsome characteristic of the male personality and even discovered a few new ones. You are a creep. A jerk. You are not clean. And you're not even interesting enough to make me sick. Understood?

It's a great suggestion and a fine movie. It's a wonderful exchange between those two.

[democracyindanger]

10. Glengarry Glen Ross

"That watch costs more than you 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? You don't like it, leave."

The screenplay is more like a collection of rants.

[Ramsey]

11. Nicholas Cage in Moonstruck

He has 2 good rants- paraphrased below:

In the first scene, Loretta (Cher) goes to invite her fiance's brother Ronnie (Nick Cage) to their wedding. The two men haven't spoken in 5 years because of some mysterious "bad blood" between them.

Ronnie: Do you know about me?
Loretta: Uh-huh
Ronnie: Nothing is anybody's fault, but this wood (ungloves his hand, shows a wooden hand), it's fake. One day Johnnie came in here and ordered some bread, and I said, OK, some bread, and my hand got caught in the slicer because I wasn't paying attention, and the slicer chewed off my hand. And when my fiancee found out, found out I'd been maimed, she left me for another man.
Loretta: That's the bad blood between you and Johnnie?
Ronnie: Yes, that's it.
Loretta: But that's not Johnnie's fault.
Ronnie (becomes agitated, knocks large flour can off of counter and screams): I don't care! I'm not some freaking monument to justice. I lost my hand, I lost my bride. Johnnie has his hand, Johnnie has his bride, you want me to take my heartache, put it away and forget it!

Later in the movie, Loretta and Ronnie have fallen in love, but Loretta thinks she should honor her promise to Johnnie, and change her "bad luck" by going against her nature. Ronnie doesn't see it that way:

Ronnie: You tell me my life, now I'll tell you yours. You think I'm a wolf, you run to the wolf in me, that don't make you no lamb. Playing it safe's just about the most dangerous thing a woman like you could do. You waited for the right man the first time, why didn't you wait the second time?
Loretta: He didn't come.
Ronnie: I'm here.
Loretta: You're late.
Ronnie: I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either. But love don't make things nice, it ruins everything. We're not perfect, not us, not us. The stars are perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. Not us. We are here to ruin ourselves, and break our hearts and love the wrong people and die! The storybooks are bullshit. Now, I want you to get upstairs in my bed! Come on.
(Loretta takes his hand and goes upstairs.)

[Beaverhausen]

13. I posted one of those above!

I love that film!

[Blue_Tires]

14. "Apocalypse Now" should have a LOT of stuff

also, just about any movie by the Cohen brothers

I forgot: Ned Beatty in "Network"

[YouthInAsia]

49. Apocalypse Now has some great quotes. The lecture he (Sheen)

receives when he's sitting down eating with the general and the cia agents and they're telling himn to terminate with extreme prejudice. Thats a good part. And also in the very beginning when he's laying in bed. Before he starts kicking and breaking shit.

[TheBaldyMan]

15. Orson Welles speech to Joseph Cotton on the Big Wheel in 'The Third Man'

one of the all time classic speeches on celluloid.

"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock ..."

[Ilsa]

16. I don't know this one, so I'll have to check it out. Thanks. nt

[TheBaldyMan]

19. check out this link, it's a brilliant film btw

The Third Man voted the best British film of all time by the British Film Institute. A quote of the speech is about half way down the page.

[Ilsa]

40. Thanks! Will do! eom

[Schema Thing]

17. Spike Lee's Fuck You/Love Letter to the people of New York City

as delivered by Edward Norton in 25th Hour

[SKKY]

53. That was very good, wasn't it?

[Ilsa]

20. Did the movie Dave with Kevin Kline have something special?

Ooooh. What about A Fish Called Wanda?

[bertha katzenengel]

50. Hmm. Not really a rant, but a TERRIFIC scene: When Sigourney Weaver

"outs" Kevin Kline as an imposter.

She: "It reminded me of that thing you did that time... when you were in the state legislature?"

He: (sheepish) "Oh. Yeah."

She takes a beat, then gives him this GREAT look, and says, "You weren't in the state legislature."

Then she stands up and holds out her hand to shake, and says, "Hi. I'm Ellen Mitchell. Who are you?"

One of my favorite movies EVER.

So was A Fish Called Wanda. :bounce:

[speedoo]

21. Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman...

As the blind General defends his young assistant from phony charges at the prep school "trial".

Remember Philip Seymour Hoffman as the bad guy kid?

[Ilsa]

25. Oh yeah, "I ought to take a flame thrower to this place!"

Yeah, PSH was good then, too when he was just a baby! ;) He had a memorable quality even then. I remembered him from SoaW when he was in that stupid tornado movie.

[speedoo]

26. Did you see PSH in The Big Lebowski?

He was really good as the rich Lebowski's gofer. Everyone in that movie was perfectly cast.

[Ilsa]

28. Noooo! I missed seeing it start to finish, so I couldn't

get settled into it. I've been meaning to rent it because what I saw was good.

[Ilsa]

29. Noooo! I missed seeing it start to finish, so I couldn't

get settled into it. I've been meaning to rent it because what I saw was good.

[speedoo]

31. Have to warn you... it's addicting.

At least for me. I think I've seen it four times, at least, and each time I see something new to crack me up. One of the Coen's best.

[beyurslf]

22. Sally Field being herself and going nuts at the end of Steel Magnolias

[bertha katzenengel]

45. Sally Field as Norma Rae, in the kitchen, when Beau Bridges goes off on

her for "neglecting" him. Both of them together -- he starts it, she finishes it -- that is a one of my favorites.

[bertha katzenengel]

51. Another from Norma Rae! When she and Ron Liebman are arguing

in the hotel room, after the "Legion of Decency" -- the bigwig union guys -- leave. They've shown up to say Norma Rae shouldn't be a leader because she's a slut.

Ron Liebman and Sally Field have this big argument when they leave. She winds up by saying, "Reuben, you been away from home a long time and you're gettin' cranky. Reuben -- you need a woman." (love the inflection when she says "you need a woman" -- rent the DVD)

He says, "Funny you should mention it." Grabs his coat and heads for the door. "Tonight's the night."

She: (amused, slightly sarcastic) "Well, what would Dorothy say?" (that's his girlfriend in NY)

He, on the way out the door: "'Wear a rubber.'"

Can you tell I LOVE that movie? Just a little?

[Mad_Dem_X]

69. The scene at the cemetary - I love that

I always cry at that scene.

"I can run all the way to Texas and back - but my daughter can't! She never could!"

[philosophie_en_rose]

23. I love Randalls diatribe in Clerks.

Dante: You know what the real tragedy about all this is? I'm not even supposed to be here today!

Randal: Oh, fuck you! Fuck you, pal! Jesus, there you go trying to pass the buck. I'm the source of all your misery. Who closed the store to play hockey? Who closed the store to go to a wake? Who tried to win back his ex girlfriend without even discussing how he felt with his present one? You wanna blame somebody? Blame yourself. "I'm not even supposed to be here today."

{throws stuff at Dante}

Randall You sound like an asshole! Jesus, nobody twisted your arm to be here. You're here of your own volition. You like to think the weight of the world rests on your shoulder. Like this place would fall apart if Dante wasn't here. Jesus, you overcompensate for having what's basically a monkey's job. You push fucking buttons. Anybody can just waltz in here and do our jobs. You-You're so obsessed with making it seem so much more epic, so much more important than it really is. Christ, you work in a convenience store, Dante! And badly, I might add! I work in a shitty video store, badly as well. You know, that guy Jay's got it right, man. He has no delusions about what he does. Us, we like to make ourselves seem so much more important than the people that come in here to buy a paper, or, god forbid, cigarettes. We look down on them as if we're so advanced. Well, if we're so fucking advanced, what are we doing working here?

[Maddy McCall]

24. Kevin Spacey to his boss in American Beauty.

One of the all-time best rants I've ever seen in a movie.

[bettyellen]

27. mr smith goes to washington

or look up gary cooper in meet john doe
both very inspirational.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

30. Howard Beale - Network - best rant ever IMHO

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 street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.

We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that 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 everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV 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 protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, 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 Russians and the crime in the street.

All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.

You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,

"I'm as mad as hell,

and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"

[LibDemAlways]

70. Paddy Chayefsky died in 1981. He had

amazing foresight. Hell of a screenplay and the best rant ever.

[speedoo]

32. Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny...

"Moy biolawgical clock is tickaing!!!"

She was scrumptious in that flick. Absolutely nailed the accent, as did Joe Pesci.

[Ilsa]

41. She got an Oscar for that, ya know.

And her performance on the witness stand was fun! But yeah, they also have that scene with her and Pesci as a highlight of the film.

[Jade Fox]

33. There are some good ones....

by Al Pacino in the movie "The Insider". If you haven't seen the movie, it's a true life story of CBS caving to its new Corporate owners in the 1990s.

[smirkymonkey]

34. From "Love and Death"....

"The question is - have I learned anything about life. Only that human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun. The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter... if it turns about that there is a god, I don't think that he is evil, I think that the worse thing you could say is that he is, basically, an under-achiever. After all, there are worse things in life than death. If you've ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know what I'm talking about. The key is, to not think of death as an end, but as more of a very effective way to cut down on your expenses. Regarding love, heh, what can you say? It's not the quantity of your sexual relations that counts. It's the quality. On the other hand, if the quantity drops below once every eight months, I would definitely look into it. Well, that's about it for me folks. Goodbye"

Boris Grushenko's (aka Woody Allen) final musings on life, love and death.

[speedoo]

35. Jules in Pulp Fiction has several great rants..

including this one, just before he kills Frank Whaley:

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities 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."

And this one, in the Diner with Tim Roth, at the end:

"There's a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. 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 the 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 I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you. I been sayin' that shit for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your ass. I never really questioned what it meant. I thought it was just a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before you popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice. Now I'm thinkin': it could mean you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. 9mm here, he's the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could be you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. I'd like that. But that shit ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be a shepherd."

[cemaphonic]

36. The Dane in Miller's Crossing

You're so goddamn smart. Except you ain't. I get you, smart guy, I know
what you are. Straight as a corkscrew. Mr. Inside-Outsky. Like a goddamn
bolshevik, picking up your orders from Yegg Central. You think you're so
goddamn smart. You joined up with Caspar. You bumped Bernie Bernbaum.
Down is up. Black is white. Well, I think you're half smart. I think you
were straight with your frail and queer with Johnny Caspar. And I think
you'd sooner join the Ladies' League than gun a guy down.

[ghostsofgiants]

37. Fight Club has some good stuff...

Tyler Durden: "Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandered. Goddamn it, 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. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war...our Great Depression is our lives. We've 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. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."

Tyler Durden: "We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...Fuck Martha Stewart. Martha's polishing the brass on the Titanic. It's all going down, man. So fuck off with your sofa units and Strinne green stripe patterns. I say never be complete. I say stop being perfect, I say let...let's evolve, let the chips fall where they may."

[Ilsa]

43. Yup! That's the one I was thinking of! Got it, thanks! eom

[cemaphonic]

61. FC quote

We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars.

In the trailers, this line seemed incredibly stupid coming from Brad Pitt, but in the context of the movie, was brilliant.

God, that movie was marketed terribly. I didn't even see it until about 2 years after it came out, when my brother assured me that it was actually very good.

[ghostsofgiants]

68. I know, I had no desire to see it whatsoever when it came out.

Then, two years later, like yourself, I was trying to think of a movie to download and a friend of mine suggested it. I thought she was crazy, but it has since become my favourite movie. Go figure.

[YankeyMCC]

38. How 'bout this:

"I am leaving soon, and you will forgive me if I speak bluntly. The universe grown smaller every day, and the threat of aggression by any group, anywhere, can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all, or no one is secure. Now, this does not mean giving up any freedom, except the freedom to act irresponsibly. Your ancestors knew this, when they made laws to govern themselves, and hired policemen to enforce them. We, of the other planets, have long accepted this principle. We have an organization for the mutual protection of all planets, and for the complete elimination of aggression. The test of any such higher authority, is, of course, the police force that supports it. For our policemen, we created a race of robots. Their function is to patrol the planets in space-ships like this one and preserve the peace. In matters of aggression, we have given them absolute power over us ... this power cannot be revoked. At the first sign of violence, they act automatically against the aggressor. The penalty for provoking their action is too terrible to risk. The result is, we live in peace; without arms or armies, secure in the knowledge that we are free from aggression and war. Free to pursue more profitable enterprises. Now, we do not pretend to have achieved perfection, but we do have a system, and it works. I came here to give you these facts. It is no concern of ours how you run your own planet, but if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder. Your choice is simple ... join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We shall be waiting for your answer ... the decision rests with you. "

Kaatu from "The Day the Earth Stood Still"

[Ilsa]

42. That is ONE COOL Speech! Thanks, I'll copy it. eom

[ElsewheresDaughter]

39. Boston Legal episode "Stick It" Alan Shore's closing arguement..VIDEO

a slAP DOWN OF BUSH ADMIN big time anti iraq war it was incredible!!!

scroll down at the bottom click on the link to watch it....you must!

http://www.boston-legal.org/19-stickit/ep19-stickit.shtml

[bertha katzenengel]

44. Chevy Chase in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

where he learns his xmas "bonus" is a one year subscription to the Jelly of the Month club. The audio clip is available somewhere on line, I think.

[Left Is Write]

56. That's the first one that came to my mind.

:thumbsup:

"Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?"

[bertha katzenengel]

57. The best part! The end!

thanks for the :rofl: as I brave the commute :hug:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

66. No the best part of that speech is...

the fact that my sister could do the whole thing at age three. That movie is Christmas is our family. We put it on everytime we decorate a tree. My father was Chevy-fucking-Chase in that movie...complete with rage, a tree-cutting horror story (and he ripped off some monks), and general spastic behavior.

[CBHagman]

47. Two quotable Christmas movies.

One is The Ref (with Kevin Spacey, Judy Davis, and Denis Leary). I can't possibly tell you the number of times I've watched that.

One of my favorite moments is when Lloyd (Kevin Spacey) finally snaps at his stingy, manipulative mother (Glynis Johns). "You know what, Mom? You know what I'm gonna get you next Christmas? A big wooden cross, so every time you feel unappreciated for all your sacrifices, you can climb up and nail yourself to it."

http://www.uselessmoviequotes.com/umq_r003.htm

The other is the much beloved The Lion in Winter (The version with Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole, not the later version). There are some sublime exchanges and rants in that screenplay, deliciously delivered by Hepburn, O'Toole, and crew, including a then-novice film actor named Anthony Hopkins.

Here's the link to a transcript of the script. I'd be hard-pressed to pick a favorite quote. Hang around enough fans and you will hear everything anyway. My sister-in-law comes out with the "pork in the treetops" comment with very little prompting.

http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/l/lion-in-winter-script-transcript.html

[YouthInAsia]

48. The part in Platoon where Tom beringer goes off on Charlie Sheen

when they're in that little bunker. He says "You talking bout Killin? What do you know about killing?" And it goes on from there. Its a good rant.

[Parrcrow]

52. I've always loved Mr Bernstein's speech in Citizen Kane

BERNSTEIN
You're pretty young, Mr. -
(remembers the name)
Mr. Thompson. A fellow will remember
things you wouldn't think he'd remember.
You take me. One day, back in 1896, I
was crossing over to Jersey on a ferry
and as we pulled out, there was another
ferry pulling in -
(slowly)
- and on it, there was a girl waiting
to get off. A white dress she had on
- and she was carrying a white pastrol
- and I only saw her for one second and
she didn't see me at all - but I'll bet
a month hasn't gone by since that I
haven't thought of that girl.
:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[6000eliot]

54. There are several in the movie Network.

[Lilith Velkor]

55. Valerie's letter, V for Vendetta

http://www.shadowgalaxy.net/Vendetta/valerie.html

[SharonRB]

64. I loved the sentence with all the "V" words

Amazing! My daughter and I didn't know so many words starting with "V" could be used in one sentence.

[Lilith Velkor]

65. Heh

"This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."

"Are you, like, a crazy person?"

[Starbucks Anarchist]

58. Ned Beatty's rant in "Network."

MP3 of the speech:

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/mp3clips/newmoviespeeches/moviespeechnetwork4.mp3

Arthur Jensen: You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations; there are no peoples. There are no regions; there are no Arabs. There is no third world; there is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems; one vast interwoven, interactive multivariant multinational dominion of dollars, petrodollars, electrodollars Reich marks, rands, roubles, pounds and shekels. It is the international system of currency that determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today. It is the international system of currency that determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things. You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and you will atone! You howl about America. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, ITT, AT&T, and Dupont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live to see that perfect world in which there is no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company for which all men will work to serve a common purpose and in which all men will own a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxiety tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you to preach this evangel.

Beale: Why me?

Arthur Jensen: Because you're on television, dummy.

Beale: I have seen the face of God!

Arthur Jensen: You just might be right.

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It was Beatty's only scene, but WHAT A SCENE. :wow:

[Squeech]

59. More

Jason Robards in A Thousand Clowns, explaining why he had to quit his job. In fact practically every speech in that movie is noteworthy.

And Miller in Repo Man explaining flying saucers to Emilio Estevez:

"I do my best thinking on the bus. That's why I don't drive."

"You don't know how to drive!"

"I don't wanna learn! Because the more you drive... the less intelligent you are!"

[ScreamingMeemie]

60. Some might laugh, but the ending to "The Breakfast Club" ..."each one

of us is a jock, a princess, a geek, a loner...etc..." is very fitting for today's society. :hi:

And Robin Williams eulogy "I'll never get to know the man he would have become..." from "What Dreams May Come". :hi:

[KitchenWitch]

62. Philadelphia

The scene in which Tom Hanks' character is speaking with his favorite opera as background music.

[SharonRB]

63. Network, A Few Good Men, Casablanca, Wall Street

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

67. Two from "Dead Poets Society"

The first movie that slammed me back and made me say "holy shit." I was in 8th grade and we watched it in class. I don't know how many times I've watched it since then...

John Keating: They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? - - Carpe - - hear it? - - Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

John Keating: We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

[mikeytherat]

71. One of my all-time faves, from "Hannah and Her Sisters"

Frederick (Max Von Sydow):

"It's been ages since I sat in front of the TV, changing channels to find something. You see the whole culture: Nazis, deodorant salesmen, wrestlers, beauty contests, the talk show. Can you imagine the mind that watches wrestling? But the worst are the fundamentalist preachers: Third-rate con men, telling the suckers that they speak for Jesus, and to please send in money. Money, money, money! If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up."

mikey_the_rat