Speech quotes

“Free speech works because most of us know when to keep our mouths shut.”
Kay Anderson - Kay Anderson

“They, er, sent a copy of the Queen's speech. Might want to scrape the frost off it first... Oh, I phoned them with a couple of suggestions, to make it sound like it came from a human being.”
Mark Bazeley - Alastair Campbell

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when
words become superfluous.”
Ingrid Bergman

“- Father of the Bride: Hey, buddy, I'm not paying you to hear your thoughts on life. I'm paying you to sing.
- Robbie Hart: Well, I have a microphone, and you don't, so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!”

Mark Lonow - Father of the Bride
Adam Sandler - Robbie Hart

“I had the strangest dream. I dreamt that some psychopath was trying to break the two of you up. Luckily, I woke up and I see that the world is just as it should be. For my best friend has won the best woman. I didn't buy you a gift. But this is on loan until you two find your song.”

Julia Roberts - Julianne Potter

Pete 'Dead Meat' Thompson is dead. So is Mo Green, Tataglia, Barzini, the heads of all the five families. It is at moments like these, my dear friends, that we must ask ourselves: "How can this not be part of some larger plan?".

Lloyd Bridges - Adm. Thomas 'Tug' Benson

Before this game started, Kilmer said "48 minutes for the next 48 years of your life". I say "fuck that". All right? Fuck that. Let's go out there, and we play the next 24 minutes for the next 24 minutes, and we leave it all out on the field. We have the rest of our lives to be mediocre, but we have the opportunity to play like gods for the next... (continue)(continue reading)

James Van Der Beek - Mox

“The number one fear of people isn't dying, it's public speaking.”
Russell Crowe - Detective Richie Roberts

“Listen you bunch of butterfingered milk saps! The way you're playing you couldn't beat a girl's basketball team. We've gotta win this game! You understand?”

Groucho Marx - Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff

“- Fredrick Zoller: This night is for you, me, the German military, the High Command, their family and friends. The only people who should be allowed in the room are the people who will be moved by the exploits on the screen.
- Joseph Goebbels: I see your public speaking has improved.”
Daniel Brühl - Fredrick Zoller
Sylvester Groth - Joseph Goebbels

“No longer will our penises remain flaccid and unused! From now on, we fight for every man out there who isn't getting laid when he should be! This is our day! This is our time! And, by God, we're not gonna let history condemn us to celibacy! We will make a stand! We will succeed! We will get laid!”
Thomas Ian Nicholas - Kevin Myers

“- FBI Agent Gray: You have to look, act, and even think like a criminal. And you're gonna have to change your speech patterns too. Most criminals like to use slang terminology, and profanity, and so forth, especially with regard to police and authority figures.
- Miles Logan: Oh, you mean like, shut the hell up you dickless FBI...?
- FBI Agent...” (continue)(continue reading)
Steve Rankin - FBI Agent Gray
Martin Lawrence - Miles Logan

“- Kara Bingham: Don't you talk for a living? Motivational king of stuff?
- Ryan Bingham: I tell people how to avoid commitment.
- Kara Bingham: What kind of fucked up message is that?
- Ryan Bingham: It's a philosophy.
- Kara Bingham: It's stupid.”
Amy Morton - Kara Bingham
George Clooney - Ryan Bingham

“I can see we're both men who truly understand the importance of making dramatic statements to the world.”

David Suchet - Nagi Hassan

“Speech is man's most important tool for the conveyance of thought.”
Tim Curry - Dr. Poole

“What's the big deal, presidents don't write their own speeches...”

Kelli Garner - Barb

“Maybe I've been wrong all these years, and it's taken your inspiring speech to make me see it. You've really changed me. It's beautiful. I think we've gotta hug.”

Matt Damon - Cale Tucker

“Jimmy Carter was President of the United States when everybody started to notice we were running out of dead dinosaurs. No more gas to run our cars. Fights at the pump. People getting nozzle-whipped. So what was his solution? He made a speech.”
George Carlin - Narrator

“- Faramir: Good speech. Nice and short.
- Boromir: Leaves more time for drinking!”

David Wenham - Faramir
Sean Bean - Boromir

“- Cleopatra: I had to walk miles across the desert to the sea... to find the fishing boat that brought me to you. But just seeing you is magic, immortal Caesar.
- Julius Caesar: That's quite a speech. Your tongue is no longer bewitched by Caesar, eh?
- Cleopatra: No. It's my heart now.”
Claudette Colbert - Cleopatra
Warren William - Julius Caesar

“- Doorman: Congratulations on winning the Tony Award.
- CC: Wasn't that something? Did you like my speech? I didn't mean a word of it! Did you see those other broads nashing their teeth? Ha ha, was great, wasn't it?”
Frank Campanella - Doorman
Bette Midler - CC Bloom

“The President addressed a joint session of Congress yesterday. He said he wasn't gonna back down on the blockade. I don't know which was scarier, the speech or the Congress cheering it. He evoked Lincoln. Whenever a president is gonna get us into serious trouble, they always use Lincoln.”
James McEachin - Victor Milson

“May you have enough happiness to keep you sweet, enough trials to keep you strong, enough hope to keep you happy, enough friends to give you comfort, enough determination to make each day a better day then yesterday. Congratulations guys I love you both. Woo!”

Dan Finnerty - Best Man

“OK gentleman, you're our warriors up there. God be with you. You're already heroes, just sit back and enjoy the ride.”

Billy Bob Thornton - Dan Truman

“When your speech is as coarse as your face, Louis, then you sound as impotent by day as you perform by night.”
Hugh Fraser - Mr Talmann