Dirk Diggler: [practicing his lines in the mirror] I've been around this block twice now. Looking for something. A clue. I've been looking for clues and something led me back here. Yeah. So here I am. It could have been me, the one who was at Ringo's place when the shit went down. Hey. I know how it is. I've been there. We've all done bad things. We've all had those guilty feelings in our heart. I'm going to take your brain out of your head and wash it and scrub it and make it clean. I don't know. But I'm going to have to settle this. First we're going to check the hole and see what we can find. We're going to get nice and wet, and you're going to spread your legs. Oh, that's good. So you know me. You know my reputation. Thirteen inches of tough load, I don't treat you gently. That's right. I'm Brock Landers. So I'm going to be nice. So I'm going to be nice. So I'm going to be nice, I'm going to ask you one more time. Where the fuck is Ringo?

[he stands, unzips his pants and pulls out his penis]

I am a star. I'm a star, I'm a star, I'm a star. I am a big, bright, shining star. That's right.

- Boogie Nights

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"Things never turn out exactly the way you planned. I know they didn't with me. Still, like my father used to say, 'Traffic's traffic, you go where life takes you'. Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers, the next you're gone, but the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. I remember a time a place, a particular fourth of July, the things that happened in that decade of war and change. I remember a house like a lot of houses, a yard like a lot of yards, on a street like a lot of other streets. I remember how hard it was growing up among people and places I loved. Most of all, I remember how hard it was to leave. And the thing is, after all these years I still look back in wonder."

- final monologue of Daniel's Stern's Narrator (Kevin Arnold) in the series finale of The Wonder Years

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"Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!"

- Daniel Day-Lewis as John Proctor in The Crucible (1996)

One of the most heartwrenching and emotional deliveries I've ever seen in a film. DDL at his absolute best.

Sophia Loren (Lucilla)'s mad ramblings about the end of the world as she runs from the palace to the forum at the end of Fall of the Roman Empire.

(from Ransom - 1996):
Detective Jimmy Shaker (Gary Sinise):
We do what you say, and we go to the bank. Anything goes wrong, you're gonna turn around and I'll be gone. Okay. And if that happens, from this day on, any time your kid leaves this house to go to school, go play, see a friend, to buy a fuckin' comic book, you're gonna have to ask yourself: Is today... Jimmy Shaker day?

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I like Dustin Hoffman's courtroom speech, fighting for custody of his son (the one Sean Penn memorized and used in "I Am Sam").