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Top 10 Movie Monologues October 12, 2007

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10. Gladiator – “My name is Maximus…” – Maximus (Russell Crowe)
“…and I will have my vengeance… in this life or the next…”

9. Forrest Gump – “Running” – Forrest (Tom Hanks)
“And that day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run.”

8. Any Given Sunday – “Peace by Inches” – Tony D’Amato (Al Pacino)
“The inches we need are everywhere around us… on this team we fight for that inch…”

7. American Psycho – “This Confession” – Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale)
“…I do not hope for a better world for anyone…”

6. Good Will Hunting – “Why I Shouldn’t Work for the NSA” – Will Hunting (Matt Damon)
“I figure fuck it, while I’m at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.”

5. Boiler Room – “Motion Creates Emotion” – Jim Young (Ben Affleck)
“Tell me you don’t like my firm. Tell me you don’t like my idea. Tell me you don’t like my fucking neck-tie. But don’t tell me you can’t put together 2500 bucks.

4. A Few Good Men – “You Can’t Handle the Truth” – Colonel Nathan R. Jessep (Jack Nicholson)
“I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom.”

3. The Silence of the Lambs – “Clarice” – Dr Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins)
“You use Evian skin cream, and sometimes you wear L’Air du Temps, but not today.”

2. The Shawshank Redemption – “Rehabilitated?” – Ellis Boyd Redding (Morgan Freeman)
“There’s not a day goes by I don’t feel regret. Not because I’m in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can’t.”

1. Glengarry Glen Ross – “ABC: Always be Closing” – Blake (Alec Baldwin)
“Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you’re fired.”

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Invisible Hill October 2, 2007

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