i watched that movie again last night, and that one put a tear to my eye.

(sorry about the length)
EARL
She's my love...my life...love of it...
In school when you're 12 years old.
In school, in six grade....and I saw her
and I didn't go to that school...but we met.
And my friend knew her...I would say,
"What's that girl?" "How's that Lily?"
"Oh, she's a bad girl...she sleeps with
guys..." My friend would say this....but
then sometime...I went to another school, you see?
But then...when high school at the end, what's
that? What is that? When you get to the end?
Yeah...So I go to her school for that
for grade twelve...and we meet...she
was fuckin...like a doll...porcelain
doll...and the hips...child bearing
hips...y'know that? So beautiful.
But I didn't have sex with anyone,
you know? I was not...I couldn't
do anything...always scared, y'know...
she was...she had some boyfriends...they
liked her y'know...but I didn't like that.
I couldn't get over that I wasn't a man,
but she was a woman. Y'see? Y'see I didn't
make her feel ok about that....I would
say, "How many men you been with?"
She told me, I couldn't take it...take that
I wasn't a man....because if I hadn't had
sex with women...like as many women as
she had men...then I was weak...a boy....
But I loved her...you understand?
....well, of course, I wanted to have
sex with her...and I did and we were
together....we met...age twelve, but then
again...age seventeen...something, somethin...
I didn't let her forget that I thought she
was a bad...a slut.....a slut I would call
her and hit her....I hit her for what she
did...but we married...Lily and me and we
married...but I cheated on her...over and
over and over again...because I wanted
to be a man and I couldn't let her be
a woman...a smart, free person who was
something...my mind then, so fuckin'
stupid, so fuckin....jesus christ, what
would I think...did I think....?
...for what I've done...She's my wife for
thirty eight years...I went behind her...
over and over...fucking asshole I am
that I would go out and fuck and come
home and get in her bed and say
"I love you..." This'z Jack's mother.
His mother Lily...these two that I had
and I lost .... and this is the regret that
you make...the regret you make is the
something that you take...blah...blah...blah...
something, something.....
(beat)
Gimme a cigarettee?
She had cancer...from her...in her
stomach and I didn't go anywhere
with her...and I didn't do a god thing...
for her and to help her....shit...this
bitch...the beautiful, beautiful bitch
with perfect skin and child bearing
hips and so soft...her namewasLilysee?
(beat, fading)
He liked her though he did, his mom,
Frank/Jack...he took care of her and she died.
She didn't stick with him and he thinks
and he hates me, ok...see...I'm...that's
then what you get?
....are you still walkin' in that car...?
....getthat on the tv....there...
...mistakes like this are not ok...
sometimes you make some, and ok...not
sometimes to make other one....know
that you should do better....I loved Lily.
I cheated on her. For thirty five years.
And I have this son. And she has cancer.
And I'm not there. And he's forced to take
care of her. He's fourteen years old to take
care of his mother and watch her die on him.
Little Kid. And I'm not there. And She Dies.
And I Live My Life. And I'm Not Fair.
Thirty eight years and she has cancer and
I'm gone...I leave...I walk out, I can't
deal with that...who am I? Who the fuck
do I think I am to go and do a thing?
Shit on that and that lovely person.
I'll go away...I'll go away...I can't
hold this..you gotta take this fuckin'
pen outta my hand...you fuckin' piss, ********er...
.....atke this.....
OH FUCK...THIS FUCKIN STORY HAS FALLEN APART
and I don't even think I can...I got no
punchline -- we had good times later,
the best times, the love of my life,
I thirty eight years -- but never the respect
and the...she knew what I did...she knew...
all the stupid things I've done but the
LOVE was stronger than anything you can think up
...The attachment....I loved her so much.
And I didn't treat her and the goddamn
regret...THE GODDAMN REGRET...and I'll die...
Now I'll die and I'll tell you: what?
The biggest regret of my life:
I let my love go.....
...I ruined my love...jesus...jesus christ.
what did I do and I had to get away...?
something, something to do....I can't explain.
....I love her so much....leave her there....
and to punish...punish her....
....and the punishment for what? What?
...nothing....and I'm so embarresed....
so embarresed for what I've done...
I'm seventy five years old and embarresed.
....million years ago...my fuckin REGRET
AND GUILT AND these things...don't
let anyone tell you that you shouldn't
regret anything.....don't do that...don't...
...you fuckin' regret what you want...
...use that....use that....
....use that regret for you any way
you want...you can use that ok....
someone says not to regret or think about
the past, something, mistakes we make.....bullshit.
....this is a long way to go for no
punch...a little moral....story I say...
Love. love. love....this fuckin' life....
ohhhhhhh, love.....
...it's so fuckin' hard....and so long....
life ain't short it's long....Life is long,
godddmnit -- god damn....whatd I do?
Whatd I do? ohhhh what'dIdo?

I love Old School!

What about this from The Third Man...

Harry Lime: "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

Stephen: The Almighty says this must be a fashionable fight. It's drawn the finest people.

Lochlan: Where is thy salute?

William: For presenting yourselves on this battlefield, I give you thanks.

Lochlan: This is our army. To join it you give homage.

William: I give homage to Scotland. And if this is your army, why does it go?

Veteran: We didn't come here to fight for them.

Soldier: Home. The English are too many.

William: Sons of Scotland, I am William Wallace.

Soldier: William Wallace is 7 feet tall.

William: Yes, I've heard. He kills men by the hundreds, and if he were here he'd consume the English with fireballs from his eyes and bolts of lightning from his arse. I am William Wallace, and I see a whole army of my countrymen here in defiance of tyranny. You have come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight?

Veteran: Fight against that? No, we will run, and we will live.

William: Aye, fight and you may die, run and you'll live. At least a while.
And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies, that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!!!

two from rotk

Theoden : Eomer. Take your éored down the left flank. Gamling, follow the King's banner down the center. Grimbold, take your company right, after you pass the wall. Forth, and fear no darkness!

Arise. Arise, Riders of Théoden. Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered. A sword day... a red day... ere the sun rises.

Eowyn : What ever happens, stay with me. I'll look after you.
Theoden : Ride now... Ride now... Ride. Ride for ruin and the world's ending.
Theoden : Death.
Rohirrim: Death.
Theoden : Death.
Rohirrim: Death.
Theoden : DEATH.

====================

Pippin : I didn't think it would end this way.
Gandalf : End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take.
Gandalf : The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all change to silver glass...
Gandalf : ...And then you see it.
Pippin : What? Gandalf?... See what?
Gandalf : White shores... and beyond. The far green country under a swift sunrise.
Pippin : Well, that isn't so bad.
Gandalf : No... No it isn't.



And anything samuel says in pulp fiction is golden

recently, I think it was from episode 9 from the Band of Brothers min-series.

Frank Perconte : Do you know why no one remembers your name? Its cause no one wants to remember your name! There are too many Smiths, Dimattos, and O'Keefes and O'Briens who show up here replacing Toccoa men that you dumb replacements got killed in the first place. And they're all like you. They're all piss and vinegar. "Where the Krauts at? Let me at 'em. When do I get to jump into Berlin?" Two days later there they are with their blood and guts hanging out. Screaming for a medic, begging for their goddamn mother. You dumb kids don't even know you're dead yet. Hey, you listening to me? Don't you know this is the best part of frickin' war I've seen? I've got hot chow, hot showers, a warm bed. The way I see it, Germany is almost as good as being home. I even got to wipe my ass with real toilet paper today. So quit asking when you're gonna see some action, will ya? And stop with the frickin' love songs!

At no point in your rambling, did you even come close to an intelligent thought. I award you no points, may God have mercy on your soul.

Chairman of the Board of New England Wire And Cable, Mr. Andrew "Jorgy" Jorgenson:
Followed by:

Lawrence "Larry the Liquidator" Garfield, President and Chairman of the Board of Garfield Investments:

Other People's Money

What about Captain Quint's speech about delivering the Hiroshima bomb in JAWS?

Walter: Donny was a good bowler, and a good man. He was...he was one of us. He was a man who loved the outdoors, and bowling, and as a surfer he explored the beaches of southern California from La Holla to Leo Carillo, and up to Pismo. He died.. he died as so many young men of his generation before his time, and in your wisdom, Lord, you took him. Just as you took so many bright, flowering young men at Khe San, and Lan Doc, and Hill 364. These young men gave their lives, and so did Donny. Donny who loved bowling. And so, Theodore Donald Karabotsos.. in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been....we commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the Pacific Ocean, which you loved so well. Goodnight, sweet prince.
(Walter dumps the ashes out of the coffee can. The wind blows them all onto The Dude.)

From A.I. (2001):

Narrator: (Ben Kingsley) Those were the years when the icecaps melted due to the greenhouse gases and the oceans had risen and drowned so many cities along all the shorelines of the world. Amsterdam, Venice, New York forever lost. Millions of people were displaced. Climate became chaotic. Hundreds of millions of people starved in poorer countries. Elsewhere a high degree of prosperity survived when most governments in the developed world introduced legal sanctions to license pregnancies. Which was why robots, who were never hungry and did not consume resources beyond those of their first manufacture were so essential an economic link in the chain mail of society.

Gigolo Joe: (Jude Law) She loves what you do for her, as my customers love what it is I do for them. But she does not love you David, she cannot love you. You are neither flesh, nor blood. You are not a dog, a cat, or a canary. You were designed and built specific, like the rest of us. And you are alone now only because they tired of you, or replaced you with a younger model, or were displeased with something you said, or broke. They made us too smart, too quick, and too many. We are suffering for the mistakes they made because when the end comes, all that will be left is us. That's why they hate us, and that is why you must stay here, with me.

Gigolo Joe: (Jude Law) I am... I was.

Two from "Amadeus". Both Salieri.

"On the page it looked like nothing. The beginning simple, almost comic. Just a pulse - bassoons and basset horns - like a rusty squeezebox. Then suddenly - high above it - an oboe, a single note, hanging there unwavering, till a clarinet took over and sweetened it into a phrase of such delight! This was no composition by a performing monkey! This was a music I'd never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing, it had me trembling. It seemed to me that I was hearing a voice of God."

"Astounding! It was actually beyond belief. These were first and only drafts of music yet they showed no corrections of any kind. Not one. Do you realize what that meant? He'd simply put down music already finished in his head. Page after page of it, as if he was just taking dictation. And music finished as no music is ever finished. Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase, and the structure would fall. It was clear to me. That sound I had heard in the Archbishop's palace had been no accident. Here again was the very voice of God! I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink-strokes at an absolute beauty."

This.

Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces.

Gary Oldman at the end of TDK.

Alec Baldwin in GlenGarry Glen Ross.

Sam Jackson in Deep Blue Sea.

David Carradine's "superman speech" in Kill Bill Pt.2

Donald Sutherland's speech in JFK and Christopher Walkin's "watch" story from Pulp Fiction are two of my favorites.

Judge Tolliver's speech in Ride the High Country:

"We are gathered here in the high mountains,
and in the presence of
this august company, to join together
this man and this woman in
matrimony... Now matrimony is an
honorable estate, instituted, blessed,
and commended and commented on by
almost everybody.
(then to Billy and
Elsa -- gently, simply)
I am not a man of the Cloth, and
this is not a religious ceremony. It
is a Civil marriage. But nonetheless,
it should not be entered into
unadvisedly, but reverently and
soberly... You know, a good marriage
has a kind of simple glory about it.
A good marriage is a rare animal,
hard to find -- almost impossible to
keep...
(stumbling, remembering)
I don't know -- you see... Well,
people change. It's important for
you to know at the beginning that
people change. You see, the real
glory of marriage don't come at the
beginning. It comes later and it's
hard work."

Opening speech in Layer Cake.

Donnie Darko's speech as he goes back in time.

And of course the Pulp Fiction watch scene.

One of my all time favourites is Steve Martin in the Jerk:

"Marie? Are you awake? Good. You look so beautiful and peaceful you almost look dead. And I'm glad because there is something I want to say that has always been very difficult for me to say. I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit and on the slitted sheet I sit. I've never been relaxed enough around anyone to say that. You give me confidence in myself.

I know we've only known each other four weeks and three days, but to me it seems like nine weeks and five days. The first day seemed like a week and the second day seemed like five days. And the third day seemed like a week again and the fourth day seemed like eight days. And the fifth day you went to see your mother and that seemed just like a day, and then you came back and later on the sixth day, in the evening, when we saw each other, that started seeming like two days, so in the evening it seemed like two days spilling over into the next day and that started seeming like four days, so at the end of the sixth day on into the seventh day, it seemed like a total of five days. And the sixth day seemed like a week and a half. I have it written down, but I can show it to you tomorrow if you want to see it.

Anyway, I've decided that tomorrow, when the time is right, I'm going to ask you to marry me. If that's OK with you, just don't say anything. You've made me very happy."

Greta Garbo (Anna Christie, 1931):

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Offhand...

Auda abu Tayi's "Yet I am poor" speech in "Lawrence of Arabia"
William Wallace's "Trade one day" speech in "Braveheart"
Captain Picard's "The line must be drawn here!" spiel to Lily in "Star Trek: First Contact"
Allenby's "Extraordinary man" speech to T.E. Lawrence in "Lawrence of Arabia"
And, God help me, the President's "Worldwide offensive" pre-speech in "Independence Day"

Kevin Costner's courtroom scene in JFK steals the show every time

Gordon Macrae (Carousel):

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Peter Finch in Network deserves a mention...


Program Director: Take 2, cue Howard.

Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.

We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be!

We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy.

It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."

Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.

I want you to get mad!

I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.

All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.

You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,

"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"