Movie quotes

DEG viper

SO what do yee feel is the greatest movie speech of all time,
In my opinion it is the inch by inch speech in any given sunday

missingtime

Baldwin's speech in Glengarry Glen Ross..?

irishash

film : jaws

character : quint

speech : the story of the indianapolis sinking and crew.

winner, hands down. contest over

Petey2006

Terry Malloy's 'I couldda been a contender' speech from On The Waterfront (with Rod Steiger's input)

Nolanger

At the end of El Cid.

Fremen

Sirus' speech at the beginning of the warriors.

"Caaaaaaaaaan you dig it?"

Ruu_Old

Liam Neeson in Michael Collins has to be in there. Short and simple.

I can't hear you! Who'll take my place? Will they shut you up?

*throws chair*

humanji

irishash wrote:

film : jaws

character : quint

speech : the story of the indianapolis sinking and crew.

winner, hands down. contest over

Actually, that whole scene is fantastic and one of the greatest film moments in my mind.

I'd also like to add the end of Casablance when Rick is trying to get Ilsa on the plane and gives his famous speech:

Rick Blaine wrote:

Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid.

Gets me everytime

Gillie

irishash wrote:

film : jaws

character : quint

speech : the story of the indianapolis sinking and crew.

winner, hands down. contest over

+1

I love Pacino's speech in Any Given Sunday also.

yabadabado

Petey2006 wrote:

Terry Malloy's 'I couldda been a contender' speech from On The Waterfront (with Rod Steiger's input)

+1. love that film.

Charlie: Look, kid, I - how much you weigh, son? When you weighed one hundred and sixty-eight pounds you were beautiful. You coulda been another Billy Conn, and that skunk we got you for a manager, he brought you along too fast.
Terry: It wasn't him, Charley, it was you. Remember that night in the Garden you came down to my dressing room and you said, "Kid, this ain't your night. We're going for the price on Wilson." You remember that? "This ain't your night"! My night! I coulda taken Wilson apart! So what happens? He gets the title shot outdoors on the ballpark and what do I get? A one-way ticket to Palooka-ville! You was my brother, Charley, you shoulda looked out for me a little bit. You shoulda taken care of me just a little bit so I wouldn't have to take them dives for the short-end money.
Charlie: Oh I had some bets down for you. You saw some money.
Terry: You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Charley.

TheIrishGrover

irishash wrote:

film : jaws

character : quint

speech : the story of the indianapolis sinking and crew.

winner, hands down. contest over

+1
Mannnnn, tough call between Blake in Glengarry, this and Bladerunner but I think Robert Shaw's delivery just pips it:

Hooper: You were on the Indianapolis?
Brody: What happened?
Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte... just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin', so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named "The Battle of Waterloo" and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark... he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us... he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened... waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

Karl Hungus

Sorry guys, but read the charter with reguards to pointless threads.