5 Great Movie Monologues

"I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture and kill them. I wanted to be the first kid on my block to get a confirmed kill."

Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Matthew Modine as Private Joker
Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick & Michael Herr & Gustav Hasford

"Oh, Michael. Michael, you are blind. It wasn't a miscarriage. It was an abortion. An abortion, Michael. Just like our marriage is an abortion. Something that's unholy and evil. I didn't want your son, Michael. I wouldn't bring another one of you sons into this world. It was an abortion, Michael. It was a son Michael. A son. And I had it killed because this must all end. I know now that it's over. I knew it then. There would be no way, Michael, no way you could ever forgive me - not with this Sicilian thing that's been going on for 2,000 years."

The Godfather Part II (1974)
Diane Keaton as Kay Corleone
Screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo

"Listen up, ladies and gentlemen. Our fugitive has been on the run for 90 minutes. The average foot speed over uneven ground, barring injury, is 4 miles an hour. That gives us a radius of 6 miles. What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, hen house, outhouse and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at 15 miles. Your fugitive’s name is Dr. Richard Kimble. Go get him."

The Fugitive (1993)
Tommy Lee Jones as Marshal Samuel Gerard
Screenplay by Jeb Stuart and David Twohy

“First of all, you write a screenplay without conflict or crisis, you’ll bore your audience to tears. Second, nothing happens in the world? Are you out of your f@cking mind? People are murdered every day. There's genocide, war, corruption. Every f@cking day, somewhere in the world, somebody sacrifices his life to save somebody else. Every f@cking day, someone, somewhere takes a conscious decision to destroy someone else. People find love, people lose it. For Christ's sake, a child watches her mother beaten to death on the steps of a church. Someone goes hungry. Somebody else betrays his best friend for a woman. If you can't find that stuff in life, then you, my friend, don't know crap about life. And why the f@ck are you wasting my two precious hours with your movie? I don't have any use for it. I don't have any bloody use for it.”

Adaptation. (2002)
Brian Cox as Robert McKee
Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman

"They got this guy in Germany. Fritz – something or other. Or is it? Maybe it's Werner. Anyway, he's got this theory. You wanna test something, you know, scientifically - how the planets go round the sun, what sunspots are made of, why the water comes out of the tap - well, you gotta look at it. But sometimes you look at it, your looking changes it. You can't know the reality of what happened, or what would've happened if you hadn't-a stuck in your own g@ddam schnozz. So there is no "what happened". Looking at something changes it. They call it “The Uncertainty Principle". Sure, it sounds screwy, but even Einstein says the guy's on to something. Science. Perception. Reality. Doubt. Reasonable doubt. I’m sayin’ sometimes the more you look, the less you really know. It’s a fact. A proved fact. And in a way, it’s the only fact there is."

The Man That Wasn’t There (2001)
Tony Shaloub as Freddy Reidenschneider
Screenplay by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen