It is truly remarkable. It meant a lot to me, and I took the time to think how it might be profound to others, in their own way and because of their own circumstances. I'd be on board with the bench statue. Seriously. The clip is magical.
0:05 Peter Finch - Network 2:17 Clint Eastwood - Dirty Harry 3:00 Burgess Meredith - Rocky II 6:16 James Stewart - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 7:52 James Earl Jones - Field of Dreams 9:56 Kevin Bacon - Footloose 12:29 Rick Gonzalez - Coach Carter 13:22 Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting 17:58 Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator 21:21 Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa 23:20 Denzel Washington - Training Day
I've loved the song iron sky for so long and I've never known that the monolouge was Charlie Chaplin and I would highly recommend to listen to the song
Honestly this is a phenomenal list of monologues from great movies over the years however i truly feel that Gordon Gecko’s speech from Wall Street (1987) should be at least recognized, honored, and respected but also added somewhere amongst the others on this list. The ending monologue from American History X should also be at least remembered and reflected upon.
I think his time as the Penguin in the campy Batman tv show may have hurt his cred a little. I think the role as mickey in the Rocky movies was perfect for him.
Chaplins speech was epic in so many ways..words coming from the mouth of such an iconic silent film star...words condemning a man..Hitler.. when he was still popular..even in America.. he prophecies the war to come..
I'm surprised I'm not seeing more about it. You can tell he feels every word, given the time, it shows his character, breaking his silence to remind everyone that no matter how many tyrants arise in our lifetimes, the beauty of humanity can always prevail.
You don't have half a clue what you're talking about, do you? Name me a single actor who played a Shakespeare character in Shakespeare's time. Greek tragedies were an art form for a millennium. Can you name a single actor? Without Google, can you name 3 actors in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather?
Good Will Hunting was such a damn good movie. Both Robin Williams and Matt Damon both absolutely nailed those roles. Just such a shame that with all the laughs he gave millions of people (and is still doing so with his movies being out there) Robin Williams hurt so much. Absolutely heart breaking.
The James Earl Jones speech for me. Is that movie schmaltzy? Sure, it doesn’t apologize for it, so you can knock it for that but not James Earl Jones. He is the living embodiment of sincerity.
Wow, if you close your eyes, you'll think that he's talking about todays issues, this is insane! Life imitating Art! I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE! We need to unite! God Bless.
The first scene is still relevant, But Charlie Chaplins speech is my all time favorite and every single line still applies today. At one point, he looks straight at the camera and you feel like hes personally talking to you and it gets me every time. When you listen, you want that wonderful world he talks about, where all are equal and we are productive and work together. All these scenes are magnificant. :)
When he says the earth is rich and can provide for everyone... So much truth. We just need to be cultivators rather than exploiters and live more simply so everyone has what they need, not hoarding everything while people die all around us. I love this monologue so much. I wish everyone one took the time to watch it. Possibly his most impressive work as an actor.
Unfortunately, I have had to be by somebody in the hospital during cancer. I’m pretty much tearing up while he saying this. When he says, loving something more than you love yourself, it’s true
The second Rocky one was the biggest wake up call I ever had. Felt like it was almost coming directly from my late dad (he was a boxer and loved those films)
That Coach Carter poem monologue is so impactful because the whole movie Carter kept asking him "What are you so afraid of?" He kept pushing and asking this boy because he wanted to know why he was holding himself back.
I gotta throw out a vote for the Herb Brooks "you were born to be hockey players" locker room speech. It might be cheesy disney drama, but I still get chills. Haha
Al Picino's speech in Any Given Sunday was great! WoW! I had to delete my last comment and correct it. Also, Bill Pullman's speech in Independence Day.
@maxpower2542 And as an actor myself, a hell of difficult monologue. A very close-up with only raw feelings. I beg he has done that in a very few tapes.
From what I can tell, these are the films featured (and sorry if I've made a mistake): "Network" "Dirty Harry" "Rocky II" "Mr Smith Goes to Washington" "Field of Dreams" "Footloose" "Coach Carter" "Good Will Hunting" "The Great Dictator" "Rocky Balboa" "Training Day"
Rest in peace, my friend you know it’s amazing. I’m gonna sit here and pretend to be all tough it really does bring me to tears when you hear hard, honest truth
I would add Colonel Jessup's courtroom monologue from A Few Good Men to this list and the Scent of a Woman speech of "I'll show you out of order!", but these are all the finest examples of wonderful acting that transcended celluloid and spoke to us on a soulful level, and we need this bravery to make movies like this again!
Ooh, BIG shout out to James Earl Jones: the guy was Darth BLOODY VADER, and Field of Dreams was crazy, but I would have trusted my life to those dulcet tones too. What an actor. What a range he had.
Agree with the "Dirty Harry" speech but the best one was in front of the bank pointing his S & W at the bank robber on the sidewalk. Besides the Jimmy Stewart monologue that is posted, there should be another by him from the movie: "It's a Wonderful Life" when he gives a lecture to the grumpy town Banker. 1946. Kenneth Branaugh as King Henry V, giving the "St. Crispian Day Speech" before a battle in France. "Henry V" 1989. George C. Scott as "Patton" in the opening scene of the movie. 1970. David Niven in "The Guns of Navarone", just before the operation when he finds his explosives have been tampered with. 1961 Henry Fonda replying to George Peppard in "How the West Was Won" about "Injuns" and the Railroad company and promises. 1962. Richard Attenborough, speaking in the Sergeant's Mess in the movie "Guns at Batasi". 1964.
The greatest monologue I've seen in a film happens in Last Tango In Paris when Marlon Brando sits beside his wife who had just committed suicide several days earlier and he's trying to understand why she did it and to tries to fathom the mystery of their relationship. I think it's his finest performance, surpassing that in The Godfather. There's something raw and revealing about this moment as a man spirals downwards. He berates her, curses her, and finally crumbles into tears at her death. Burgess Meredith was great. I don't know if he ever won an Oscar over course of his remarkable career or if he was nominated for his outstanding performance in Rocky but he deserved it. He was among the great character actors who tend to get overlooked. As great as the "I'm mad as hell" speech is I think the monologue by Ned Beatty later in Network tops it. It's chilling, especially when Beatty says, "YOU WILL ATONE!!!" Howard Beale looks like a little kid being admonished by the principal of his school.
Not even close how great Robin Williamns is. Every scene is great in this clip, but there is no fi niher. Robin Willy is not comparable. It's not even halfway there. Watch it again. These are all great clips.
Great list! The only one that is missing is Talk Radio Barry Champlain's (eric bogosian) last monologue. I think it's very relevant today to the hate that is spewed on social media today.
Sad that the Good Will Hunting speech is so relevant these days because the literary world of the younger, and the world of direct experience of the elder are both now in decline.
How in the world did Chaplin memorize and perform those lines in a one shot? Holy crap. If you look up the monologue, written, it its paragraph after paragraph after paragraph. Amazing.
How about Robin William’s Carpe Diem monologue in “Dead Poet’s Society” ‘"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."
Here's another, from "It's A Wonderful Life": "Just a minute - just a minute. Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. Just a minute. Now, you're right when you say my father was no business man. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anybody else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was -- Why, in the twenty-five years since he and Uncle Billy started this thing, he never once thought of himself. Isn't that right, Uncle Billy? He didn't save enough money to send Harry to school, let alone me. But he did help a few people get outta your slums, Mr. Potter. And what's wrong with that? Why -- here, you're all businessmen here. Don't it make them better citizens? Doesn't it make them better customers? You, you said that they -- What'd you say just a minute ago? They had to wait and save their money before they even thought of a decent home. Wait? Wait for what?! Until their children grow up and leave them? Until they're so old and broken-down that -- You know how long it takes a workin' man to save five thousand dollars? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about, they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him, but to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well, in my book he died a much richer man than you'll ever be." In the end, the Mr. Potters won, but the Harry Baileys put up one hell of a fight.
Have the Potters won? The game's not over. From the late 1800's to the early 1900's the Potter's were winning big, but the Baileys of the world kicked some ass. Today, the Potters are winning again, but I haven't heard any fat lady singing. The world used to be ruled by kings and lords and "noblemen", they are mostly humbled and powerless now. The fight goes on and probably always will as the Potters will never give up - neither can we. To quote Walt Whitman: "Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring, Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish, Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?) Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d, Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me, Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined, The question, O me! so sad, recurring-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." Harry and George Bailey contributed a good verse, what will yours be?
These are some great monologues, absolutely. But for a list of ELEVEN monologues I'm surprised not to see a single woman... Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Sally Field, Viola Davis, Meryl Streep, American Ferrera have all delivered some of the most famous monologues of all time. Just something to consider if you make more compilations.
These are just ok accept Robin Williams. Some you missed, "Tears in Rain" from "Blade Runner", "You Can't Handle the Truth!" from "A Few Good Men", "Life is Like a Box of Chocolates" from "Forrest Gump", "Independence Day Speech" from "Independence Day".
Robin William's monologue still gives me chills. Has anyone commissioned a statue of him next to that bench? If not, I'm willing to help pay for one.
It is truly remarkable. It meant a lot to me, and I took the time to think how it might be profound to others, in their own way and because of their own circumstances. I'd be on board with the bench statue. Seriously. The clip is magical.
Or, how about a statue that is the entire bench so you can sit next to him.
Christ, what a fantastic actor Robin Williams was. RIP, mate.
Couldn't agree with you more.
A once-in-a-century entertainer.
I met him in 2009. He was a great person. The universe loves you Robin
No one could do comedy and drama so seemingly... ❤
He was a lousy actor who could occasionally be good.
Crazy how relevant the first scene is
What’s the first one from?
@@TheRainbowKiss Network (1976)
Here from 2 months in the future and it’s even more relevant
And the last one. It was a prophecy. The Charley Chapman one.
Extremely succinct. To the point of precision. But it isn't over just yet.
The charlie chaplin speech is legendary and still means something.
0:05 Peter Finch - Network
2:17 Clint Eastwood - Dirty Harry
3:00 Burgess Meredith - Rocky II
6:16 James Stewart - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
7:52 James Earl Jones - Field of Dreams
9:56 Kevin Bacon - Footloose
12:29 Rick Gonzalez - Coach Carter
13:22 Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting
17:58 Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator
21:21 Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa
23:20 Denzel Washington - Training Day
Thank you, Batman.
that was needed thankyou
Not all heroes wear capes!
I've loved the song iron sky for so long and I've never known that the monolouge was Charlie Chaplin and I would highly recommend to listen to the song
Honestly this is a phenomenal list of monologues from great movies over the years however i truly feel that Gordon Gecko’s speech from Wall Street (1987) should be at least recognized, honored, and respected but also added somewhere amongst the others on this list. The ending monologue from American History X should also be at least remembered and reflected upon.
Burgess Meridith might be one of the most underrated actors of all time
I think his time as the Penguin in the campy Batman tv show may have hurt his cred a little. I think the role as mickey in the Rocky movies was perfect for him.
Chaplins speech was epic in so many ways..words coming from the mouth of such an iconic silent film star...words condemning a man..Hitler.. when he was still popular..even in America.. he prophecies the war to come..
I'm surprised I'm not seeing more about it. You can tell he feels every word, given the time, it shows his character, breaking his silence to remind everyone that no matter how many tyrants arise in our lifetimes, the beauty of humanity can always prevail.
The first scene just goes to show we’re in a constant loop
Writers will never get enough credit actors definitely bring it to life but my god the words! THE WORDS!
Some actors make the writing better, some actors write there own 🫡
You don't have half a clue what you're talking about, do you? Name me a single actor who played a Shakespeare character in Shakespeare's time. Greek tragedies were an art form for a millennium. Can you name a single actor? Without Google, can you name 3 actors in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather?
If you properly words can be extremely strong the way they should be they should have meaning worth value substance
You’re better than that ❤ 😢
@@skynyrdjesusthe godfather, Marlon Brando, James Caan, Al Pacino, John Cazale. That’s 4 right there without google
First scene is pretty much relevant now 45 years later
That why it's the first one. It's a really great moment too.
Do you know from which movie it is?
@@thierry091985 Network
First scene is always relevant. Humanity is perpetually born into a harsh form of spiritual warfare no matter what generation.
I'm mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!!! Get mad, people. Get mad as hell.
A lot of great monologues in this video, but Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting still hits different.
Good Will Hunting was such a damn good movie. Both Robin Williams and Matt Damon both absolutely nailed those roles. Just such a shame that with all the laughs he gave millions of people (and is still doing so with his movies being out there) Robin Williams hurt so much. Absolutely heart breaking.
The entire monologue was completed in one continuous take
The James Earl Jones speech for me. Is that movie schmaltzy? Sure, it doesn’t apologize for it, so you can knock it for that but not James Earl Jones. He is the living embodiment of sincerity.
Wow, if you close your eyes, you'll think that he's talking about todays issues, this is insane! Life imitating Art! I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE! We need to unite! God Bless.
We are mad as hell, and we're not gonna take it
It's less life imitating art and more History Repeats Itself...
@@KateBlackSpence I would agree. Its a shame, cuz it shouldn't be this way. You have a nice voice.
The first scene is still relevant,
But Charlie Chaplins speech is my all time favorite and every single line still applies today.
At one point, he looks straight at the camera and you feel like hes personally talking to you and it gets me every time.
When you listen, you want that wonderful world he talks about, where all are equal and we are productive and work together.
All these scenes are magnificant. :)
Thank you for the kind words. Not that I had anything to do with the scenes; But, I'm glad you enjoyed my collection.
I doubt trump has ever seen it, let alone understand it.
When he says the earth is rich and can provide for everyone... So much truth. We just need to be cultivators rather than exploiters and live more simply so everyone has what they need, not hoarding everything while people die all around us.
I love this monologue so much. I wish everyone one took the time to watch it. Possibly his most impressive work as an actor.
@@SteveBerryhillThank you for commenting on a unifying speech with such a divisive reply. Await further instructions comrade.
Unfortunately, I have had to be by somebody in the hospital during cancer. I’m pretty much tearing up while he saying this. When he says, loving something more than you love yourself, it’s true
I was on the other side when I had a bad brain injury, seeing that pain on my loved ones faces really made me feel that scene, im sorry for your pain
May the Good Lord be with you
Life and death Is 50 50 then ur 101
network, was very prophetic
“Your move chief…”
RIP
I just can’t get enough of these scenes
Ty
that first scene aged like the FINEST wine dear god
"It reminds us of all of what once was good, and what could be again" God, such a good line.
Robin Williams was something so special. RIP king.
Burgess could sure make you feel every moment of a scene he was in.
He's so captivating. I can never look away when he's on screen, whether funny or serious.
amazing actor of generations
He was a Great one!
Remember, Mickey loves ya.
The second Rocky one was the biggest wake up call I ever had. Felt like it was almost coming directly from my late dad (he was a boxer and loved those films)
Yeah, the first two and then the last one (Rocky Balboa) are a nice trilogy if you don't want to get involved with all the craziness of III, IV, & V.
Spencer Tracy's speech from " Guess who's coming to Dinner" also priceless
Ohhhhh, very VERY good call. That one is sheer class, one of my all-time favorite acting moments (and a long 'moment' at that, haha).
0:30 My God, nothing has really changed in 40 years. The same problems persist.
That Coach Carter poem monologue is so impactful because the whole movie Carter kept asking him "What are you so afraid of?" He kept pushing and asking this boy because he wanted to know why he was holding himself back.
Yeah, I agree. You summed it up nicely.
"What is your deepest fear young man"
Movie is free on UA-cam currently 😊
Let's not forget about the writers who created these moments, they should be recognized first. Scent of a women should be here too.
And The Shawshank Redemption
The scene in Rocky Balboa was actually written by Stallone. He wrote all the Rocky movies
Preach to them!!! 🙏
The USS Indianapolis speech from Jaws is the all-time greatest monolog in movie history.
Agreed. It's a masterpiece in acting.
I absolutely agree with you
Should be on this list…..easily. Robert Shaw.
@@TerrillFischer thank you
Thank you so much for not placing narcissistic commentary in this, as many others do. *cough, watchmojo *cough.
I'm about as far from narcissistic as you can get... even though I'm the greatest person ever. Lol
Burgess Meredith and Robert Shaw should of won the Oscar for there roles.
“I’m the po lease, I run shit up in here, you just live here!” Denzel is phenomenal
I gotta throw out a vote for the Herb Brooks "you were born to be hockey players" locker room speech. It might be cheesy disney drama, but I still get chills. Haha
Yeah, that's a great one. It's in my sports movie video and the 7 more monologues video, I think.
3/29/24 and the first one rings more true than ever
Burgess Meredith such an amazing actor.
Peter Finch might just have the most famous lines in cinema history
Great list. I would have proabbly added A Few Good Men monologue here. That one is always epic.
I try to stay away from Tom Cruise movies.. The Church of Scientology might want some cash or worse yet, my soul.
I love all the monologues ! It's very great.
Thank you for the kind words.
Al Picino's speech in Any Given Sunday was great! WoW! I had to delete my last comment and correct it. Also, Bill Pullman's speech in Independence Day.
Piece of art.
Great UA-cam collection. Thank you
It's our way of-of celebrating life!
Robin Williams all the way. That was fanatic monologue!
Yeah, he was one hell of a talent. Thanks for watching, too.
@maxpower2542 And as an actor myself, a hell of difficult monologue. A very close-up with only raw feelings. I beg he has done that in a very few tapes.
Thank you for showing us (me) an amazing collection of inspirational messages. I will look into some of these films in great detail.
Glad you enjoyed it
Fine selection... I can think of a few others, but these are some of the most memorable to survive the test of time.
From what I can tell, these are the films featured (and sorry if I've made a mistake):
"Network"
"Dirty Harry"
"Rocky II"
"Mr Smith Goes to Washington"
"Field of Dreams"
"Footloose"
"Coach Carter"
"Good Will Hunting"
"The Great Dictator"
"Rocky Balboa"
"Training Day"
Rest in peace, my friend you know it’s amazing. I’m gonna sit here and pretend to be all tough it really does bring me to tears when you hear hard, honest truth
Mickey takes the cake in my book.
Great list. My personal favourite was the USS Indianapolis speech by Quint in Jaws.
Yeah, that's a great one. He was actually really drunk when filming that scene. Look it up. Crazy.
The Footloose guitar riffs go hard 👏🏾👏🏾🔥
I would add Colonel Jessup's courtroom monologue from A Few Good Men to this list and the Scent of a Woman speech of "I'll show you out of order!", but these are all the finest examples of wonderful acting that transcended celluloid and spoke to us on a soulful level, and we need this bravery to make movies like this again!
It's on my other monologue video.
The Father we all need
Ooh, BIG shout out to James Earl Jones: the guy was Darth BLOODY VADER, and Field of Dreams was crazy, but I would have trusted my life to those dulcet tones too.
What an actor.
What a range he had.
I always liked Ray and Winston talking about judgment day in Ghostbusters 1. Short and sweet.
Really great collection
Thank you, appreciate it✌
thank you
Not sure what year the 1st monologue is from, bit it could fit right in with 2024!! Crazy
Burgess Meredith was a great!
"There Will Be Blood"
nice one
Agree with the "Dirty Harry" speech but the best one was in front of the bank pointing his S & W at the bank robber on the sidewalk.
Besides the Jimmy Stewart monologue that is posted, there should be another by him from the movie: "It's a Wonderful Life" when he gives a lecture to the grumpy town Banker. 1946.
Kenneth Branaugh as King Henry V, giving the "St. Crispian Day Speech" before a battle in France. "Henry V" 1989.
George C. Scott as "Patton" in the opening scene of the movie. 1970.
David Niven in "The Guns of Navarone", just before the operation when he finds his explosives have been tampered with. 1961
Henry Fonda replying to George Peppard in "How the West Was Won" about "Injuns" and the Railroad company and promises. 1962.
Richard Attenborough, speaking in the Sergeant's Mess in the movie "Guns at Batasi". 1964.
Far better than Mojo... Thank you
I miss my mother . I miss my father. You don’t know how lucky you are if you have either .
Chaplin takes it all!
The greatest monologue I've seen in a film happens in Last Tango In Paris when Marlon Brando sits beside his wife who had just committed suicide several days earlier and he's trying to understand why she did it and to tries to fathom the mystery of their relationship. I think it's his finest performance, surpassing that in The Godfather. There's something raw and revealing about this moment as a man spirals downwards. He berates her, curses her, and finally crumbles into tears at her death.
Burgess Meredith was great. I don't know if he ever won an Oscar over course of his remarkable career or if he was nominated for his outstanding performance in Rocky but he deserved it. He was among the great character actors who tend to get overlooked.
As great as the "I'm mad as hell" speech is I think the monologue by Ned Beatty later in Network tops it. It's chilling, especially when Beatty says, "YOU WILL ATONE!!!" Howard Beale looks like a little kid being admonished by the principal of his school.
Not even close how great Robin Williamns is. Every scene is great in this clip, but there is no fi niher. Robin Willy is not comparable. It's not even halfway there. Watch it again. These are all great clips.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it✌🤘
Great list! The only one that is missing is Talk Radio Barry Champlain's (eric bogosian) last monologue. I think it's very relevant today to the hate that is spewed on social media today.
Epic. I have a son. I know now what to show him. Danke.
Mickey, being a dad to those of us that don’t have one
Network was so good
Sad that the Good Will Hunting speech is so relevant these days because the literary world of the younger, and the world of direct experience of the elder are both now in decline.
How in the world did Chaplin memorize and perform those lines in a one shot? Holy crap. If you look up the monologue, written, it its paragraph after paragraph after paragraph. Amazing.
I think he may have had cue cards.🤷♂️
That's crazy right!
Stage actors have been doing this for hundreds of years. Doesn't make it any less impressive though.
First scene is accurate to that time of today
nothing is over..nothing! Rambo first blood last monologue probably the greatest monologue ever. nothing is prepare for that monologue for the movie.
How about Robin William’s Carpe Diem monologue in “Dead Poet’s Society”
‘"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."
Someone like Mickey talking like that to you would definitely inspire you
The Rocky Balboa speech. Epic.
100%
Here's another, from "It's A Wonderful Life":
"Just a minute - just a minute. Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. Just a minute. Now, you're right when you say my father was no business man. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anybody else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was -- Why, in the twenty-five years since he and Uncle Billy started this thing, he never once thought of himself. Isn't that right, Uncle Billy? He didn't save enough money to send Harry to school, let alone me. But he did help a few people get outta your slums, Mr. Potter. And what's wrong with that? Why -- here, you're all businessmen here. Don't it make them better citizens? Doesn't it make them better customers?
You, you said that they -- What'd you say just a minute ago? They had to wait and save their money before they even thought of a decent home. Wait? Wait for what?! Until their children grow up and leave them? Until they're so old and broken-down that -- You know how long it takes a workin' man to save five thousand dollars? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about, they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him, but to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well, in my book he died a much richer man than you'll ever be."
In the end, the Mr. Potters won, but the Harry Baileys put up one hell of a fight.
Have the Potters won? The game's not over. From the late 1800's to the early 1900's the Potter's were winning big, but the Baileys of the world kicked some ass. Today, the Potters are winning again, but I haven't heard any fat lady singing. The world used to be ruled by kings and lords and "noblemen", they are mostly humbled and powerless now. The fight goes on and probably always will as the Potters will never give up - neither can we. To quote Walt Whitman:
"Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish,
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d,
Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,
Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,
The question, O me! so sad, recurring-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."
Harry and George Bailey contributed a good verse, what will yours be?
“I’m a human being..my life has value!”
Jaws needs to be on here.
I love Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Congress should be forced to watch this movie once a week!
Indeed. Great movie.
Manny Perez' speech to the Army recruiters in Greencard Warriors. Is my favorite.
Don't think I ever seen or heard of that movie.. have to give it a look.
Great monologues! Could you make a similar video, but with female monologues instead?
These are some great monologues, absolutely. But for a list of ELEVEN monologues I'm surprised not to see a single woman... Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Sally Field, Viola Davis, Meryl Streep, American Ferrera have all delivered some of the most famous monologues of all time. Just something to consider if you make more compilations.
As Gomer Pyle said.. Surprise, Surprise, Surprise.
Everyone of these orations are as relevant today as they were then. Shame on the every government
Robin Williams was a loss to humanity , If he only knew how important he was
What movies are these?
Maybe credit the films
Some of these are part of Oscar-winning performances.
Charlie Chaplin is the only human who can pull off that mustache with dignity
Smiling and no longer wish
Nic cage early in the movie diei g of the light and the tatoo guy in expendables was very touchi g in a tortured way
Um Roy Batty, and his tears in rain would like word with you!
I've spoken to Roy Batty. He understands these are the ones I picked and he's cool with it.✌
That Mickey scene was so powerful for me.
amazing
KING KONG AIN'T GOT SHIT ON ME
Amazing. Perfect.
These are just ok accept Robin Williams. Some you missed, "Tears in Rain" from "Blade Runner", "You Can't Handle the Truth!" from "A Few Good Men", "Life is Like a Box of Chocolates" from "Forrest Gump", "Independence Day Speech" from "Independence Day".
"Tears in Rain" from "Blade Runner" was one of the best monologues ever.
I’d add in Mia Goth’s monologue at the end of Pearl.
You should do that then. Can't wait to see your video.
It’s my money and I need it now!!!
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Gotta love powerpoint transitions