George C Scott from The Hospital (1971) the so called Impotence Monologue. A great piece of acting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mey1dXTLdeE
Samuel Jackson's speech in Pulp Fiction
Jack Nicholson's "venusians" speech in Easy Rider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgiQPdPUNvs 3:48
Strother Martin reciting the rules in Cool Hand Luke
Marisa Tomei's expert witness testimony in My Cousin Vinny
Aaron the Moor's speech from Titus Andronicus (yes I know that's a play first but I have only seen the movie version so it's a movie speech!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcLGJ0c-X9k
Peter Lorre's confession in M
fucking amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-QKd37uFug
Basically any monologue by Robin Williams.
shareAny of anton walbrook's in The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp.
shareAl Pacino has a few. Someone already mentioned Scent of a Woman. I also liked his monologue in Devil's Advocate:
"Who are you carrying all those bricks for anyway? God? Is that it? God? Well, I tell ya, let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He’s a prankster. Think about it. He gives man instincts. He gives you this extraordinary gift and then what does He do? I swear, for His own amusement, His own private cosmic gag reel, He sets the rules in opposition. It’s the goof of all time. Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, don’t swallow. And while you’re jumpin’ from one foot to the next, what is He doin’? He’s laughin’ His sick, f***ing ass off. He’s a tight-ass. He’s a sadist. He’s an absentee landlord. Worship that? Never! … Why not? I’m here on the ground with my nose in it since the whole thing began! I’ve nurtured every sensation man has been inspired to have! I cared about what he wanted and I never judged him. Why? Because I never rejected him, in spite of all his imperfections! I’m a fan of man! I’m a humanist."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGR4SFOimlk
and in Any Given Sunday:
"I don’t know what to say, really. Three minutes till the biggest battle of our professional lives all comes down to today. Now either we heal as a team or we’re gonna crumble, inch by inch, play by play, 'til we’re finished.
We’re in hell right now, gentlemen, believe me. And, we can stay here -- get the shit kicked out of us -- or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb outta hell one inch at a time.
Now, I can’t do it for you. I’m too old. I look around. I see these young faces, and I think -- I mean -- I made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I, uh, I pissed away all my money, believe it or not. I chased off anyone who’s ever loved me. And lately, I can’t even stand the face I see in the mirror."
- Continued -
"You know, when you get old in life things get taken from you. I mean that's...part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life’s this game of inches. So is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small -- I mean one-half a step too late, or too early, and you don’t quite make it. One-half second too slow, too fast, you don’t quite catch it.
The inches we need are everywhere around us.
They’re in every break of the game, every minute, every second.
On this team, we fight for that inch. On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch, because we know when we add up all those inches that’s gonna make the f***ing difference between winning and losing! Between livin' and dyin'!
I’ll tell you this: In any fight, it’s the guy who’s willing to die who’s gonna win that inch. And I know if I’m gonna have any life anymore, it’s because I’m still willin' to fight and die for that inch. Because that’s what livin' is! The six inches in front of your face!!
Now I can’t make you do it. You got to look at the guy next to you. Look into his eyes! Now I think you’re gonna see a guy who will go that inch with you. You're gonna see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team because he knows, when it comes down to it, you’re gonna do the same for him!
That’s a team, gentleman!
And, either we heal, now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
That’s football guys.
That's all it is.
Now, what are you gonna do?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b7bgtu2O4E
One between Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan in " When Harry Met Sally " where he explains that men and women cannot be just friends without the guy thinking about sex with her.
It is a classic and really funny. BTW ,it is also true.
nice one
shareThank you , and I apologize , since it is not a "monologue" , per se. Still,I enjoyed it immensely. - good movie
rest in peace , Carrie Fisher
Ok . I'll try again- let me think, a monologue - well ,two of my favorites have already been mentioned, Patton opening and Quint in Jaws.
Another of my favorites was Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest doing World Series Commentary to a blank TV screen - true classic IMHO
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oh ,yeah- one of many humorous scenes in the movie
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