Best Movie Speeches

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Amadeus :

Salieri: From now on we are enemies, You and I. Because You choose for Your instrument a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile boy and give me for reward only the ability to recognize the incarnation. Because You are unjust, unfair, unkind, I will block You, I swear it. I will hinder and harm Your creature on earth as far as I am able.


Falling Down :D The whole movie is a quote, one giant awesome compilation of quotes :lol:


Falling Down (1993)

Bill Foster: You're Korean? Do you have any idea how much money my country has given your country?

Mr. Lee: How much?

Bill Foster: I don't know. But, it's gotta be a lot.
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Mr. Lee: Take the money.

Bill Foster: You think I'm a thief? Oh, you see, I'm not the thief. I'm not the one charging 85 cents for a *stinking* soda! You're the thief. I'm just standing up for my rights as a consumer.
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[William "D-FENS" Foster picks up the flat hamburger he just ordered, comparing it to the picture behind the counter]

Bill Foster: It's plump, juicy, three inches thick. Look at this sorry, miserable, squashed thing. Can anybody tell me what's wrong with this picture?
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Captain Yardley: [Captain Yardley, to Prendergast, on the precinct and policing and why good cops quit] Lot of good cops want to drop the whole kit and kaboodle. And who wouldn't? The pay stinks and your up to your ears in human scum sixteen hours a day.
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Adele Foster-Travino: What's your name?

Sergeant Prendergast: My name is mud.

Adele Foster-Travino: Nuh-uh!

Sergeant Prendergast: Yes it is.

Adele Foster-Travino: Your name is not mud!

Sergeant Prendergast: Well, it will be. Once my wife finds out that I'm still a cop.
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Bill Foster: I am not economically viable.
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Captain Yardley: I never liked you. You know why? You don't curse. I don't trust a man who doesn't curse. Not a "****" or a "****" in all these years. Real men curse.
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Nick: We're the same, you and me. We're the same, don't you see?

Bill Foster: We are not the same. I'm an American and you're a sick asshole.

Nick: Just what kind of vigilante are you?

Bill Foster: I am not a vigilante. I am just trying to get home to my little girl's birthday party and if everyone will just stay out of my way, nobody will get hurt.
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Gang Member #1: Whatcha doin' Mister?

Bill Foster: Nothing.

Gang Member #1: Yes you are man, you're trespassing on private property.

Bill Foster: Trespassing?

Gang Member #2: You're loitering too, man.

Gang Member #1: That's right, you're loitering too.

Bill Foster: I didn't see any signs.

Gang Member #1: [pointing at a graffiti skull] Whatcha call that?

Bill Foster: Graffiti.

Gang Member #1: No man, that's not ****ing graffiti. That's a sign.

Gang Member #2: He can't read it man.

Gang Member #1: I'll read it for you. It says this is ****ing private property. No ****ing trespassing. This means ****ing you.

Bill Foster: It says all that?

Gang Member #1: Yeah.

Bill Foster: Well, maybe if you wrote it in ****ing English, I could ****ing understand it.
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Annoying Man at Phone Booth: Excuse me... Hey, EXCUSE ME. I don't know if you have noticed it or not, but there are other people waiting to use the phone here.

Bill Foster: There are?

Annoying Man at Phone Booth: Yeah.

Bill Foster: There's other people who want to use the phone?

Annoying Man at Phone Booth: That's right, you selfish asshole.

Bill Foster: Well, that's too bad. Because you know what?

[firing a machine gun into the phone booth]

Bill Foster: I think it's out of order.
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Bill Foster: [to The Golfer that is having a heart attack] Yeah. And now you're gonna die, wearing that stupid little hat. How does it feel?
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Bill Foster: Why am I calling you by your first names? I don't even know you. I still call my boss "Mister", and I've been working for him for seven years, but all of a sudden I walk in here and I'm calling you Rick and Sheila like we're in some kind of AA meeting... I don't want to be your buddy, Rick. I just want some breakfast.

Sheila: You can call me Miss Folsom if you want.
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Bill Foster: I'm the Bad Guy?

Sergeant Prendergast: Yeah.

Bill Foster: How'd that happen? I did everything they told me to. Did you know I build missiles? I helped to protect America. You should be rewarded for that. But instead they give it to the plastic surgeons, you know they lied to me.

Sergeant Prendergast: Is that what this is about? You're angry because you got lied to? Is that why my chicken dinner is drying out in the oven? Hey, they lie to everyone. They lie to the fish. But that doesn't give you any special right to do what you did today. The only that makes you special is that little girl. Now let's go. Lets go!

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[Bill Foster approaches the gang after they crashed]

Bill Foster: You missed.

[Foster picks up the UZI and shots to the car]

Bill Foster: I missed too.

[Foster threatens the gang member as he begs for his life. Foster shoots him in the leg]

Bill Foster: There, you see? That's a Concept.

[Picks up the gym bag with the guns]

Bill Foster: Take some shooting lessons, asshole.

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Captain Yardley: [Captain Yardley, to Prendergast, on the precinct and policing and why good cops quit] Lot of good cops want to drop the whole kit and kaboodle. And who wouldn't? The pay stinks and your up to your ears in human scum sixteen hours a day.
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Retirement Party Cop 1: [Prendergast is turning down a stripper party to chase D-FENS] What's the matter, Prendergast, you afraid of women, too?

Retirement Party Cop 2: Yeah, have you seen his wife?

Sergeant Prendergast: What did you say?

Det. Jones: Prendergast, we don't have time for this.

Sergeant Prendergast: You're right!

[Punches the guy in the face, leaves]
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Adele Foster-Travino: What's your name?

Sergeant Prendergast: My name is mud.

Adele Foster-Travino: Nuh-uh!

Sergeant Prendergast: Yes it is.

Adele Foster-Travino: Your name is not mud!

Sergeant Prendergast: Well, it will be. Once my wife finds out that I'm still a cop.

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Bill Foster: What are you doing to the street?

Construction Worker: We're fixing it! What the Hell does it look like?

Bill Foster: Two days ago it was fine. Are you telling me the street fell apart in two days?

Construction Worker: Well, I guess so.

Bill Foster: Pardon me, but that's ********. You see, I don't think anything's wrong with the street! I think you're just trying to justify your inflated budgets! I know how it works! If you don't spend the projected amount this year, you don't get the same amount next year! Now, I want you to admit, THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THE STREET!

Construction Worker: Hey, **** you, pal.

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Bill Foster: I am not economically viable.

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Sergeant Prendergast: [Standing on the hill near the convenience store] Hey, Mr. Lee! D-FENS!

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Captain Yardley: I never liked you. You know why? You don't curse. I don't trust a man who doesn't curse. Not a "****" or a "****" in all these years. Real men curse.
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Nick: We're the same, you and me. We're the same, don't you see?

Bill Foster: We are not the same. I'm an American and you're a sick asshole.

Nick: Just what kind of vigilante are you?

Bill Foster: I am not a vigilante. I am just trying to get home to my little girl's birthday party and if everyone will just stay out of my way, nobody will get hurt.

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Gang Member #1: Whatcha doin' Mister?

Bill Foster: Nothing.

Gang Member #1: Yes you are man, you're trespassing on private property.

Bill Foster: Trespassing?

Gang Member #2: You're loitering too, man.

Gang Member #1: That's right, you're loitering too.

Bill Foster: I didn't see any signs.

Gang Member #1: [pointing at a graffiti skull] Whatcha call that?

Bill Foster: Graffiti.

Gang Member #1: No man, that's not ****ing graffiti. That's a sign.

Gang Member #2: He can't read it man.

Gang Member #1: I'll read it for you. It says this is ****ing private property. No ****ing trespassing. This means ****ing you.

Bill Foster: It says all that?

Gang Member #1: Yeah.

Bill Foster: Well, maybe if you wrote it in ****ing English, I could ****ing understand it.

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Annoying Man at Phone Booth: Excuse me... Hey, EXCUSE ME. I don't know if you have noticed it or not, but there are other people waiting to use the phone here.

Bill Foster: There are?

Annoying Man at Phone Booth: Yeah.

Bill Foster: There's other people who want to use the phone?

Annoying Man at Phone Booth: That's right, you selfish asshole.

Bill Foster: Well, that's too bad. Because you know what?

[firing a machine gun into the phone booth]

Bill Foster: I think it's out of order.

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[In the Whammy Burger]

Bill Foster: Why am I calling you by your first names? I don't even know you. I still call my boss "Mister", and I've been working for him for seven years, but all of a sudden I walk in here and I'm calling you Rick and Sheila like we're in some kind of AA meeting... I don't want to be your buddy, Rick. I just want some breakfast.

Sheila: You can call me Miss Folsom if you want.

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Bill Foster: I've passed the point of no return. Do you know what that is, Beth? That's the point in a journey where it's longer to go back to the beginning. It's like when those astronauts got in trouble. I don't know, somebody messed up, and they had to get them back to Earth. But they had passed the point of no return. They were on the other side of the moon and were out of contact for like hours. Everybody waited to see if a bunch of dead guys in a can would pop out the other side. Well, that's me. I'm on the other side of the moon now and everybody is going to have to wait until I pop out.

Beth: The police are here.

Bill Foster: Did you know, Beth, that in some South American countries it's still legal to kill your wife if she insults you?
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Seedy Guy in Park: That's a hell of a way to treat a vet, man.

Bill Foster: You're an animal doctor?

Seedy Guy in Park: No, a vet. A veteran. I was in 'Nam, man.

Bill Foster: What were you - a drummer boy? You must've been 10 years old.

Seedy Guy in Park: I meant the Gulf. I meant to say the Gulf. Jesus. Come on. All I'm asking for is a little change. I haven't eaten in three days.

[has a sandwhich in hand]

Seedy Guy in Park: Well, I mean, except for this.
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Nick: Why don't they call you guys officer-esses?

Sandra: I beg your pardon?

Nick: You know, like actress. Something to signify... You know.

Sandra: Oh. I guess they feel a police officer is a police officer. Not a... You know.

Nick: Okay then. Sorry I couldn't have been helpful, Officer-ess.
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Nick: **** you. Who the **** are you? Are you ****ing with me? You're ****ing with me!

Bill Foster: I am just disagreeing with you! In America, we have the freedom of speech, the right to disagree!

Nick: **** you and your freedom.
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Frank: Listen, what am I paying my ****ing dues for? This is my golf course! If I wanna play here, I will play here. If he gets hit with my titleist, that's his ****ing problem. Fore! Fore!

[Hits ball]

Bill Foster: [the ball barely misses his head; whips out shotgun] Five! What the hell are you trying to do? Kill me with a golf ball? It's not enough you have all these beautiful acres fenced in for your little game, but you gotta kill me with a golf ball? You should have children playing here, you should have families having picnics, you should have a goddamn petting zoo. But instead you've got these stupid electric carts for you old men with nothing better to do.

[Fires his shotgun at a golf cart, causing it to roll down the hill]

Bill Foster: Now aren't you ashamed?
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Bill Foster: Hey. Why are you putting barbed wire on that fence? Is this how you rich people amuse yourselves? You put barbed wire on the fence so innocent people like me can hurt themselves looking in?
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[after Bill shoots the golf cart, triggering Frank's heart attack]

Bill Foster: What's wrong?

Frank: My - heart...

Bill Foster: Well, what can I do about it?

Frank: Pills... get p-pills...

Bill Foster: Where are your pills?

[Frank points towards the cart, which has just plunged into a water hazard]

Bill Foster: Bad news. Your little car's gonna drown. And you're gonna die, wearing that stupid hat. How does it feel?
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Sergeant Prendergast: Lucky you caught me.

Motorcycle Cop: I am?

Sergeant Prendergast: Yeah. Today's my last day as a cop.

Motorcycle Cop: Lucky me.
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Motorcycle Cop Bobbit: [Highway Patrolman, Prendergast, and Car Driver are talking in gridlocked traffic] Gentlemen, I'm going to have to ask you to both return to your vehicles.

Car Driver: But what about the car?

Motorcycle Cop Bobbit: I'm going to radio for a tow truck to have it removed.

Sergeant Prendergast: Let's just shove it out of the way, we'll get this lane moving!

Motorcycle Cop Bobbit: Sir, sir, we're in a dangerous environment here. We've got a lot of glass and steel rushing by us at high speeds.


 
It's impossible to find a clip without the massive spoiler - yeah, it's a 16 year old movie, but the graphic nature doesn't help - and it loses its impact with random people doing the monologue, so I'll just paste it. From my personal favourite, American Beauty:

"I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time...

For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout camp, watching falling stars... And yellow leaves, from the maple trees that lined our streets... Or my grandmother's hands, and the way her skin seemed like paper... And the first time I saw my cousin Tony's brand new Firebird.... And Janie... And Janie... And Carolyn.

I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad when there is so much beauty in the world.

Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst...

And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid life...

You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... you will someday."

Some other good ones:


(Skip about a minute in if you're impatient)


(Serious language warning)


Short and to the point - and sets the tone for the entire movie
 


Keep calm and carry on?

No, raise hell and change the world!
 
I have always been a fan of Mal's speech in SERENITY rallying his crew after they discover the most dangerous secret in the universe:

"Y'all got onto this boat for different reasons, but y'all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you that I have before. Maybe all. Because as sure as I know anything, I know this: they will try again. Maybe on another world; maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, or ten, they'll swing back to the belief that they can make people 'better'. And I do not hold to that. I am to misbehave."
 
And not from a film, but I love this. It was taken from the Sports Personality of the Year 2012. Idris Elba reads out performs "It couldn't be done" by Edgar Guest



I raise this to you:

 
This. btw he's really flexin those jaw muscles lmao.

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Just posted this in the recent films thread, but Josef Goebbels has a fantastic speech in Der Untergang for all the wrong reasons.

"I have no sympathy [for them]. I say again, I have no sympathy! The people chose this fate themselves. Yeah, that might come as a surprise to some people. Don't kid yourself; we didn't force the German people to vote for us. They commissioned us, and now they're getting their little throats slit."




And the original, for you afficianadoes who think German sounds angry;

"Ich kann kein Mitgefühl empfinden. Ich wiederhole, ich kann kein Mitgefühl empfinden! Das Volk hat dies Schicksal selbst gewählt. Ja das kann für manche Leute eine Überraschung sein. Geben Sie sich keine Illusion: Wir haben das deutsche Volk nicht gezwungen. Es hat uns selbst beauftragt und jetzt wird ihnen das Hälschen durchgeschnittet."
 
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Breakfast Club:

Brian Johnson: Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did *was* wrong. But we think you're crazy to make an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us... In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain...

Andrew Clark: ...and an athlete...

Allison Reynolds: ...and a basket case...

Claire Standish: ...a princess...

John Bender: ...and a criminal...

Brian Johnson: Does that answer your question?... Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club.
 
Captain Kirk from Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (aka greatest movie of all time)

KIRK (OC): We are assembled here today to pay final respects to our honoured dead. And yet it should be noted that in the midst of our sorrow, this death takes place in the shadow of new life, the sunrise of a new world, a world that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish. He did not feel that sacrifice a vain or empty one... and we will not debate his profound wisdom at these proceedings. Of my friend, I can only say this. Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, ...his was the most ...human.

From Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood:

Will Munny: You better bury Ned right!... Better not cut up, nor otherwise harm no whores... or I'll come back and kill every one of you sons of bitches.
 
The Goonies: (One of my Childhood Faves)


Caddyshack: (Classic for us Golfers)


A Bronx Tale: (Top 5 for me) so many good speeches only if 'C' could have listened to himself for his own personal life...
 
Coffee's for closers! [Language WARNING]

 
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