My Top 10 Movie Speeches

There are many great movie speeches from great films and everyone has their favourites, but the 10 most memorable that stay with me are as follows:

10. Apocalypse Now – Napalm Speech

You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn’t find one of ‘em, not one stinkin’ dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like… victory. Someday this war’s gonna end…

9. Dirty Harry – Clint Eastwood

I know what you’re thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I’ve kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya punk?

8. Braveheart – William Wallace

“Many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days — from this day to that — for one chance; just one chance to come back here and kill our enemies? That they may take our lives. But they’ll never take … OUR FREEDOM!”

7. Pulp Fiction – Watch Speech

“So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then, he died of dysentery. He gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass, two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you.”

6. Blade Runner – Rutger Hauer

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I Watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time … like tears in the rain. Time to die.”

5. A Few Good Men – Courtroom Speech

“You can’t handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, lieutenant Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know – that Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives; and my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall.”

“We use words like honour, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then question the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you and went on your way, otherwise I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post. Either way I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled too.”

4. Full Metal Jacket – Motivation Speech
It’s a little too long for including all the dialogue but a great speech.

3. Apocalypse Now – Kurtz Horror Speech

“I’ve seen horrors horrors that you’ve seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that but you have no right to judge me. It’s impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us, and he was crying. He couldn’t see. We went back there, and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember III cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn’t know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized like I was shot like I was shot with a diamond a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we………..

2. Anchor Man – Ron Burgundy Chat up Speech
Apologies for the quality but it was the only clip with the full speech in I could find.

Hello. Hope I’m not disturbing you, but, uh, I saw you from across
the party, and, uh, I don’t usually do this, but I felt compelled to tell you something. You have… an absolutely breathtaking… heinie. I mean, that thing is good. I want to be friends with it.

Well, you certainly know how to compliment a woman. Now, if you’ll excuse me.

Do you know who I am?

No, I can’t say that I do.

I don’t know how to put this, but I’m kind of a big deal.

Really?

People know me.

I’ve very happy for you.

I’m very important. I have… many leather-bound books,and my apartment smells of rich mahogany. I… I’m friends with Merlin Olsen, too. He comes over on occasion.

That’s stupid.

No, no, that’s… very exciting.

Listen, can I… can I start over again?

Sure.

I wanna say something. I’m gonna put it out there. If you like it,you can take it. If you don’t, send it right back.

Mm-hmm.

I wanna be on you.
Wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I… I wanna be on you.

1. Fist Full of Dynamite – Revolution Speech
“Revolution, please don’t try to tell me about revolution – I know all about revolutions and how they start. The people that read the books they go to the people that don’t read the books, the poor people, and say oh ho the time has come to have a change ha!
Shhhhhhh.
Shh Shh Shh Shh Shh Shit Shush!!! I know what I’m talking about when I talk about the Revolutions! The People who read the books go to the people who cant read the books, the poor people and say we have to have a change. So the poor people make the change. And then the people who read the books they all sit around their big polished tables and talk and talk and talk and eat and eat and eat, but what has happened to the poor people…..THEY’RE DEAD!…………….. That’s your Revolution…………. Shht!……..

So please….. don’t tell me about revolutions….

AND WHAT HAPPENS AFTERWARDS THE SAME FUCKING THING STARTS ALL OVER AGAIN.”