Best movie speech?

Question

Mines the one Al Pacino does at the end of Scent of a Woman.

Answer 1

Samuel L. Jackson's in "Pulp Fiction" before he kills those kids, Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men", Julia Roberts in "Mona Lisa Smile" (I'm not even a big Julia fan!), Gary Oldman in "Murder in the First" - there are so many!

Answer 2

Best movie speech huh?

Laurence Fishburne's character Morpheus in the original Matrix, when he offers Neo the Red Pill or the Blue Pill

Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you just how deep the rabbit-hole goes.

Answer 3

Alec Baldwin's "God Complex" speech from the movie Malice:

"The question is, do I have a 'God Complex', which makes me wonder if this lawyer has any idea as to the kind of grades one has to receive in college to be accepted at a top medical school, or if you have the vaguest clue as to how talented someone has to be to lead a surgical team. I have an MD from Harvard. I am board certified in cardiothoracic medicine and trauma surgery. I have been awarded citations from seven different medical journals in New England, and I am never, ever sick at sea.

So I ask you, when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn't miscarry, or that their daughter doesn't bleed to death, or that their mother doesn't suffer acute neural trauma from postoperative shock, who do you think they're praying to? Now, you go ahead and read your Bible, Dennis, and you go to church and with any luck you might win the annual raffle. But if you're looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17th, and he doesn't like to be second guessed. You ask me if I have a God Complex? Let me tell you something: I am God."

Answer 4

So many...

Jody Foster as "Nell" in the last scene made me weep. I had to sit a few minutes befor leaving the theater.

Meryl Streep in "Out of Africa" I walked around the house for weeks saying, "I had a farm in Africa"

The part in "Somewhere in Time" where Jane Seymour is on stage and goes off script is riveting.

I sound like a sentimental sop but it's really the powerful use of language to evoke emotion that gets to me.

Answer 5

The speech James Earl Jones gives about baseball at the end of Field of Dreams.

Answer 6

Holden McNeil's (Ben Affleck) speech to Alyssa Jones (Joey Lauren Adams) in "Chasing Amy" gets me everytime.

Alyssa: "Why are we stopping?"
Holden: "Because I can't take this."
Alyssa: "Can't take what?"
Holden: "I love you."
Alyssa: "You love me?"
Holden: "I love you. And not, not in a friendly way, although I think we're great friends. And not in a misplaced affection, puppy-dog way, although I'm sure that's what you'll call it. I love you. Very, very simple, very truly. You are the epitome of everything I have ever looked for in another human being. And I know that you think of me as just a friend, and crossing that line is the furthest thing from an option you would ever consider. But I had to say it. I just, I can't take this anymore. I can't stand next to you without wanting to hold you. I can't, I can't look into your eyes without feeling that, that longing you only read about in trashy romance novels. I can't talk to you without wanting to express my love for everything you are. And I know this will probably queer our friendship - no pun intended - but I had to say it, because I've never felt this way before, and I don't care. I like who I am because of it. And if bringing this to light means we can't hang out anymore, then that hurts me. But God, I just, I couldn't allow another day to go by without just getting it out there, regardless of the outcome, which by the look on your face is to be the inevitable shoot-down. And, you know, I'll accept that. But I know... I know that some part of you is hesitating for a moment, and if there is a moment of hesitation, then that means you feel something too. All I ask, please, is that you just, you just not dismiss that - and try to dwell on it for just ten seconds. Alyssa, there isn't another soul on this f***ing planet who has ever made me half the person I am when I'm with you, and I would risk this friendship for the chance to take it to the next plateau. Because it is there between you and me. You can't deny that. Even if, you know, even if we never talk again after tonight, please know that I'm forever changed because of who you are and what you've meant to me, which - while I do appreciate it - I'd never need a painting of birds bought at a diner to remind me of. "

Answer 7

lucy liu in kill bill vol. 1

As your leader, I encourage you, from time to time and always in a respectful manner, to question my logic. If you're unconvinced a particular plan of action I've decided is the wisest, tell me so! But allow me to convince you. And I promise you, right here and now, no subject will ever be taboo... except, of course, the subject that was just under discussion. The price you pay for bringing up either my Chinese or American heritage as a negative is: I collect your ******* head. [holds up Tanaka's head] Just like this ****** here. Now, if any of you sons of bitches got [shouting] anything else to say, now's the ******* time! [pause] I didn't think so.

Answer 8

In Good Will Hunting where Robin Williams takes Matt Damon to the park and talks to him about how he is just a kid and he has never experienced anything real before.

Answer 9

The one Ned Beatty gave to Peter Finch In Network. They are in a conference room Beatty is standing at one end of a very long conference table, Finch is seated at the other
To paraphrase "There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM . At&T ...... "

Answer 10

Jimmy Stewart--"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"