1077 Best Movie Monologues – Page 83 of 108

Dirty Dancing (Frances Houseman)

Category: Movie Role: Frances Houseman From: Dirty Dancing

I told you I was telling the truth Daddy. I’m sorry I lied to you. But you lied too. You told me everyone was alike and deserved a fair break. But you meant everyone who was like you. You told me you wanted me to change the world, make it better. But you meant by becoming a lawyer or an economist and marrying someone from Harvard. I’m not proud of myself, but I’m in this family too and you can’t keep giving me the silent treatment. There are a lot of things about me that aren’t what you thought. But if you love me, you have to love all the things about me. And I love you, and I’m sorry I let you down, I’m so sorry Daddy. But you let me down too.

Dirty Dancing (Johnny Castle)

Category: Movie Role: Johnny Castle From: Dirty Dancing

Nobody puts baby in a corner. Come on.

Dirty Harry (Dirty Harry Callahan)

Category: Movie Role: Dirty Harry Callahan From: Dirty Harry

You gotta ask yourself one question, ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya punk?

Daredevil (Daredevil)

Category: Movie Role: Daredevil From: Daredevil

Violence doesn’t discriminate. It hits all of us. The rich, the poor, the healthy, the sick. It comes as cold and bracing as a winter breeze off the Hudson. Until it sinks into your bones, leaving you with a chill you can’t shake. They say there’s not rest for the wicked. But what about the good? The battle of Good vs. Evil is never-ending because evil always survives, with the help of evil men. As for Daredevil, well… soon the world will know the truth. That this is a city born of heroes, that one man can make a difference.

Dark City (Dr. Daniel Paul Schreber)

Category: Movie Role: Dr. Daniel Paul Schreber From: Dark City

First there was darkness, then came the strangers. They were a race as old as time itself. They had mastered the ultimate technology: the ability to alter physical reality by will alone. They called this ability, tuning. But they were dying. Their civilization was in decline. And so they abandoned their world, seeking a cure for their own mortality. Their endless journey brought them to a small blue world in the farthest corner of the galaxy. Our world. Here they thought they had found what they had been searching for. My name is Dr. Daniel Paul Schreber. I am just a man. I helped the strangers conduct their experiments. I have betrayed my own kind.

Dances with Wolves (Chief Ten Bears)

Category: Movie Role: Chief Ten Bears From: Dances with Wolves

The white men who wore this came around the time of my grandfather’s grandfather. Eventually we drove them out. Then the Mexicans came. But they do not come here any more. In my own time, the Texans. They have been like all the others. They take without asking. But I think you are right. I think they will keep coming. When I think of that, I look at this helmet. I don’t know if we are ready for these people. Our country is all that we have, and we will fight to keep it. … You are the only white man I have ever known. I have thought about you a lot. More than you think. And I understand your concern. But I think you are wrong. The white man the soldiers are looking for no longer exists. Now there is only a Sioux named Dances With Wolves.

Dances with Wolves (Lt. John J. Dunbar)

Category: Movie Role: Lt. John J. Dunbar From: Dances with Wolves

It was hard to know how to feel. I had never been in a battle like this one. This had not been a fight for territory or riches or to make men free. This battle had no ego. It had been fought to preserve the food stores that would see us through winter, to protect the lives of women and children and loved ones only a few feet away. I felt a pride I had never felt before.

Dangerous Beauty (Beatrice Venier)

Category: Movie Role: Beatrice Venier From: Dangerous Beauty

When my daughter is old enough, I want you to make her a courtesan. The life you live, the freedom that you have. Would you deny my daughter the same chance? Do you know what my daughter’s nurse told her this morning? That in a girl’s voice lies temptation. A known fact: eloquence in a woman means promiscuity. Promiscuity of the mind leads to promiscuity of the body. She doesn’t believe her yet, but she will. She’ll grow up just like her mother. She’ll marry. Bear children and honor her family. Spend her youth at needlepoint and rue the day she was born a girl. And when she dies, she’ll wonder why she obeyed all the rules of God and country, because no Biblical hell could ever be worse than this state of perpetual inconsequence.

Dangerous Liaisons (Marquis de Merteuil)

Category: Movie Role: Marquis de Merteuil From: Dangerous Liaisons

When I came out into society I was 15. I already knew then that the role I was condemned to, namely to keep quiet and do what I was told, gave me the perfect opportunity to listen and observe. Not to what people told me, which naturally was of no interest to me, but to whatever it was they were trying to hide. I practiced detachment. I learned how to look cheerful while under the table I stuck a fork onto the back of my hand. I became a virtuoso of deceit. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think, and novelist to see what I could get away with, and in the end it all came down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.

Dangerous Minds (LouAnne Johnson)

Category: Movie Role: LouAnne Johnson From: Dangerous Minds

The mind is like a muscle and if you want it to be really powerful, you got to work it out. Each new fact gives you another choice. Each new idea builds another muscle and it’s those muscles that are going to make you really strong. Those are your weapons and in this unsafe world, I want to arm you. Okay, look, if at the end of the term, you’re not faster, stronger and smarter, you will have lost nothing. But if you are, you’ll be that much tougher to knock down.