1077 Best Movie Monologues – Page 3 of 108

Wall Street (Gordon Gekko)

Category: Movie Role: Gordon Gekko From: Wall Street

Well, I appreciate the opportunity you’re giving me Mr. Cromwell as the single largest shareholder in Teldar Paper, to speak. Well, ladies and gentlemen we’re not here to indulge in fantasy but in political and economic reality. America, America has become a second-rate power. Its trade deficit and its fiscal deficit are at nightmare proportions. Now, in the days of the free market when our country was a top industrial power, there was accountability to the stockholder. The Carnegies, the Mellons, the men that built this great industrial empire, made sure of it because it was their money at stake. Today, management has no stake in the company! All together, these men sitting up here own less than three percent of the company. And where does Mr. Cromwell put his million-dollar salary? Not in Teldar stock; he owns less than one percent. You own the company. That’s right, you, the stockholder. And you are all being royally screwed over by these, these bureaucrats, with their luncheons, their hunting and fishing trips, their corporate jets and golden parachutes. … Teldar Paper, Mr. Cromwell, Teldar Paper has 33 different vice presidents each earning over 200 thousand dollars a year. Now, I have spent the last two months analyzing what all these guys do, and I still can’t figure it out. One thing I do know is that our paper company lost 110 million dollars last year, and I’ll bet that half of that was spent in all the paperwork going back and forth between all these vice presidents. The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest. Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated. In the last seven deals that I’ve been involved with, there were 2.5 million stockholders who have made a pretax profit of 12 billion dollars. Thank you. I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much.

Wanted (Wesley Allan Gibson)

Category: Movie Role: Wesley Allan Gibson From: Wanted

I know we laugh at you, Janice. We all know you keep a stash of jelly donuts in the top drawer of your desk. But I want you to know, if you weren’t such a bitch, we’d feel sorry for you. I do feel sorry for you. But as it stands, the way you behave – I feel I can speak for the entire office when I tell you, go fuck yourself.

Watchmen (Dr. Manhattan)

Category: Movie Role: Dr. Manhattan From: Watchmen

Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait. She bursts into angry tears, asking if it’s because she’s getting older. It’s true. She’s aging more noticeably every day – while I am standing still. I prefer the stillness here. I am tired of Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.

Up in the Air (Natalie Keener)

Category: Movie Role: Natalie Keener From: Up in the Air

Sometimes it feels like, no matter how much success I have, it’s not gonna matter until I find the right guy. I could have made it work, he really fit the bill, you know. White collar, 6’1, college grad, loves dogs, likes funny movies, brown hair, kind eyes, works in finance but is outdoorsy. I always imagined he’d have a single syllable name like Matt or John or Dave. In a perfect world, he drives a 4 runner and the only thing he loves more than me is his golden lab. And a nice smile. What about you?

Up in the Air (Natalie)

Category: Movie Role: Natalie From: Up in the Air

NATALIE: When I was sixteen, I thought by twenty three, I would be married, maybe have a kid… Corner office by day, entertaining at night. I was supposed to be driving a Grand Cherokee by now. Now I have my sights on twenty nine, because thirty is just way too… apocalyptic. I mean, where did you think you”d be by… (Natalie catches herself, having no idea bow old Alex is.) I don”t want to say anything that”s… anti-feminist. I mean, I really appreciate everything your generation did for me.But sometimes it feels like no matter how much success I have, it all won”t matter until I find the right guy. I don”t know. I could have made it work. He just really fit the bill. My type. You know, white collar. College grad. Loves dogs. Likes funny movies. Six foot one. Brown hair. Kind eyes. Works in finance but is Outdoorsy, you know, on the weekends. (we think she”s done) I always imagined he”d have a single syllable name like Matt or John or… Dave. In a perfect world, he drives a Four Runner and the only thing he loves more than me is his golden lab. Oh… and a nice smile.More Monologues from “Up in the Air”RelatedShareTweetPin

But sometimes it feels like no matter how much success I have, it all won”t matter until I find the right guy. I don”t know. I could have made it work. He just really fit the bill. My type. You know, white collar. College grad. Loves dogs. Likes funny movies. Six foot one. Brown hair. Kind eyes. Works in finance but is Outdoorsy, you know, on the weekends. (we think she”s done) I always imagined he”d have a single syllable name like Matt or John or… Dave. In a perfect world, he drives a Four Runner and the only thing he loves more than me is his golden lab. Oh… and a nice smile.More Monologues from “Up in the Air”RelatedShareTweetPin

Up in the Air (Ryan Bingham)

Category: Movie Role: Ryan Bingham From: Up in the Air

How much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second that you’re carrying a backpack. I want you to pack it with all the stuff that you have in your life… you start with the little things. The shelves, the drawers, the knickknacks, then you start adding larger stuff. Clothes, tabletop appliances, lamps, your TV… the backpack should be getting pretty heavy now. You go bigger. Your couch, your car, your home… I want you to stuff it all into that backpack. Now I want you to fill it with people. Start with casual acquaintances, friends of friends, folks around the office… and then you move into the people you trust with your most intimate secrets. Your brothers, your sisters, your children, your parents and finally your husband, your wife, your boyfriend, your girlfriend. You get them into that backpack, feel the weight of that bag. Make no mistake your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The slower we move the faster we die. Make no mistake, moving is living. Some animals were meant to carry each other to live symbiotically over a lifetime. Star crossed lovers, monogamous swans. We are not swans. We are sharks.

Up in the Air (Ryan)

Category: Movie Role: Ryan From: Up in the Air

Ryan: How much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second that you”re carrying a backpack. I want you to feel the straps on your shoulders… You feel them? (gives us a beat) I want you to pack it with all the stuff that you have in your life. You start with the little things. The shelves and the drawers. The knick-knacks. Collectables. Feel the weight as that adds up. Then you start adding larger stuff. Clothes, table top appliances, lamps, linens, your TV. That backpack should be getting pretty heavy now and you go bigger. Your couch, your bed, your kitchen table. Stuff it all in there. Your car, get it in there. Your home, whether it”s a studio apartment or a two bedroom house. I want you to stuff it all into that backpack. Now try to walk. It”s kind of hard, isn”t it? This is what we do to ourselves on a daily basis. We weigh ourselves down until we can”t even move. And make no mistake. moving is living. Now, I”m going to set that backpack on fire. What do you want to take out of it? Photos? Photos are for people who can”t remember. Drink some ginkgo and let the photos burn. In fact, let everything burn and imagine waking up tomorrow with nothing. (a beat of emphasis) It”s kind of exhilarating, isn”t it? That is how I approach every day.More Monologues from “Up in the Air”RelatedShareTweetPin

Then you start adding larger stuff. Clothes, table top appliances, lamps, linens, your TV. That backpack should be getting pretty heavy now and you go bigger. Your couch, your bed, your kitchen table. Stuff it all in there. Your car, get it in there. Your home, whether it”s a studio apartment or a two bedroom house. I want you to stuff it all into that backpack. Now try to walk. It”s kind of hard, isn”t it? This is what we do to ourselves on a daily basis. We weigh ourselves down until we can”t even move. And make no mistake. moving is living. Now, I”m going to set that backpack on fire. What do you want to take out of it? Photos? Photos are for people who can”t remember. Drink some ginkgo and let the photos burn. In fact, let everything burn and imagine waking up tomorrow with nothing. (a beat of emphasis) It”s kind of exhilarating, isn”t it? That is how I approach every day.More Monologues from “Up in the Air”RelatedShareTweetPin

Now try to walk. It”s kind of hard, isn”t it? This is what we do to ourselves on a daily basis. We weigh ourselves down until we can”t even move. And make no mistake. moving is living. Now, I”m going to set that backpack on fire. What do you want to take out of it? Photos? Photos are for people who can”t remember. Drink some ginkgo and let the photos burn. In fact, let everything burn and imagine waking up tomorrow with nothing. (a beat of emphasis) It”s kind of exhilarating, isn”t it? That is how I approach every day.More Monologues from “Up in the Air”RelatedShareTweetPin

Now, I”m going to set that backpack on fire. What do you want to take out of it? Photos? Photos are for people who can”t remember. Drink some ginkgo and let the photos burn. In fact, let everything burn and imagine waking up tomorrow with nothing. (a beat of emphasis) It”s kind of exhilarating, isn”t it? That is how I approach every day.More Monologues from “Up in the Air”RelatedShareTweetPin

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UPS International Shipping (UPS)

Category: Movie Role: UPS From: UPS International Shipping

All right. International shipping. Well, your products are on a plane, ready to go to your customers in Europe to arrive on Friday, but Italy wants it there by noon, Paris early morning and London late afternoon. Well, if you had a UPS logo, now when your customers ask, you can say “Si, Oui, and Yes”. It’s not international shipping, it’s international shipping with UPS. … You even got a little tail wind.

V for Vendetta (V)

Category: Movie Role: V From: V for Vendetta

But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona. Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone 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, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.

Valentine’s Day (Felicia)

Category: Movie Role: Felicia From: Valentine's Day

It’s really funny actually. Like I was not into him at first. He used to shoot spit wads at me in Spanish class, which is like so junior high, but then one night I was brushing out my hair when I got home and I found this spit wad, but it was really a note and it said “Whats up” and I was like, “That is so cute”, and then I liked him…………Oh my God, baby, are you okay. Walk it off baby, walk it off. Your still hot baby, your still hot.