Speech quotes

“That's one small step for man! One giant... I have a dream!”

Chris Farley - Mike Donnelly

“- Danny Ocean: The house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes. The house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet and you bet big, then you take the house.
- Rusty Ryan: You've been practicing this speech, haven't you?”
George Clooney - Danny Ocean
Brad Pitt - Rusty Ryan

Today, you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" We will not vanish without a... (continue)(continue reading)

Bill Pullman - President Whitmore

“- Michelle Dubois: Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once.
- René: Well, in that case, could you please speak slowly?”
Kirsten Cooke - Michelle Dubois
Gorden Kaye - René Artois

“- Lloyd Christmas: I feel like a schoolboy again. A schoolboy who desperately wants to make sweet, sweet love to you.
- Mary Swanson: I thought I heard you talking to someone.
- Lloyd Christmas: [now extremely nervous] Mary... I... I desperately want to make love to a schoolboy.”

Jim Carrey - Lloyd Christmas
Lauren Holly - Mary Swanson

“- Mrs. Fernandez: Things that matter are hard.
- Pete: Now I know where Brenda gets her inspiring speech thing.”
Rosemary Dominguez - Mrs. Fernandez
Mark Wahlberg - Pete

“- Governor Kolp: So speech makes them human?
- Soldier: Speech makes them intelligent. And intelligence makes them not human, but humane.”

Severn Darden - Governor Kolp
Cal Wilson - Soldier

“- Queen Anne: How was my speech?
- Lady Sarah: You were brilliant.
- Queen Anne: Did I lisp?
- Lady Sarah: You don't lisp.
- Queen Anne: I know. That was what was so troubling about it. The thought that I suddenly did.”
Olivia Colman - Queen Anne
Rachel Weisz - Lady Sarah

“Give them nothing! But take from them everything!”
Gerard Butler - King Leonidas

“- Chief Bridges: What was the room like?
- Ron Stallworth: Folks were hanging on every word.
- Jimmy Creek: Like a Baptist church on Christmas Sunday morning.”
Robert John Burke - Chief Bridges
John David Washington - Ron Stallworth
Michael Buscemi - Jimmy Creek

“- Charles Xavier: This message is for one reason alone: to tell the strongest among you...
- Apocalypse: Those with the greatest power, this earth will be yours!
- Charles Xavier: Those with the greatest power... protect those without. That's my message to the world.”

James McAvoy - Professor Charles Xavier
Oscar Isaac - Apocalypse

“Sometimes it's easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around the dark. Suddenly, a light gets turned on and there's a fair share of blame to go around.”
Liev Schreiber - Marty Baron

“I'm going to talk about a life today. An important life in our community. A life that ends life. The life of a gun.”
John Cusack - Father Mike Corridan

“- Victor Von Frankenstein: Since the beginning of modern medicine, there has been an assumption regarding the status of mortality. That being that death is an unavoidable event, the inevitability of which we should take for granted. I will show today that life is not some grace bestowed upon us by some outdated notion of an all-powerful...
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James McAvoy - Dr. Frankenstein
Freddie Fox - Finnegan

“Who's gonna save them? The police? They're gone. The military? They're not coming, either. Guys we're the last line of defense. And so what? Maybe we look like dorks in these uniforms. And maybe we're a big joke to everyone at school. But tonight, we're gonna show them what being a real Scout's all about. So, are we just gonna stand here with...” (continue)(continue reading)

Logan Miller - Carter Grant

“Okay, I'm going to keep this short. Friends, family, religion. These are the demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. Any questions?”

Harry Shearer - Mr. Burns

“Guys, there's going to be some haters out there. They're going to look at us, Team USA, and be like, 'why is the most talented one Australian?'”

Rebel Wilson - Fat Amy

“This harmony we achieved is now under attack from a small but extremely dangerous group of individuals. We call them Divergents. They are, in essence, the worst of what humanity used to be. Rebellious, defiant, and uncontrollable.”

Kate Winslet - Jeanine

“When heterosexual partners die their pensions go to their spouses. But because my partner is a woman, I don't get to do that. In my twenty three years of being a police officer, I've never asked for special treatment. I'm only asking for equality.”
Julianne Moore - Laurel Hester

“I had the privilege of knowing a small-town girl from the Seam in District 12 who survived the Hunger Games and the Quarter Quell and rose up and turned a nation of slaves into an army! Dead or alive, Katniss Everdeen will remain the face of this revolution. She will not have died for nothing.”

Julianne Moore - President Alma Coin

“Today, the greatest friend to the revolution will fire the shot to end all wars. May her arrow signify the end of tyranny and the beginning of a new era. Mockingjay, may your aim be as true as your heart is pure.”

Julianne Moore - President Alma Coin

“The most precious things in speech are pauses.”
Ralph David Richardson

“- Herr Flick: I have an excellent gramophone and many old records of Hitler's speeches. They are quite amusing.
- Helga: Hitler's speeches quite amusing?
- Herr Flick: Played at double speed, he sounds like Donald Duck.”
Richard Gibson - Herr Otto Flick
Kim Hartman - Private Helga Geerhart

“And we love each other so much that last Thanksgiving, we did it!”

Giovanni Ribisi - Danny

“I know you think you've lost everything, but you haven't. You have me, you have Charles... you have more family than you know. You never had the chance to save your family before, but you do now. That's what I've come here to tell you.”

Jennifer Lawrence - Mystique