Best Hero Speeches from Movies or TV
 

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I pretty much despised the movie, but Bill Pullman's speech as the President in ID4 was pretty cool. I also liked Cpt. Picard's speech in the final ep of TNG ("All Good Things") just before the Enterprise went into the negative time vortex. And speaking of ST, Kirk's speech in "Return To Tomorrow" was a pretty well written and delivered piece.

From Buffy the Vampire Slayer 'The Sacrifice' (end of Season 5).
Buffy: "Everybody knows their jobs. Remember, the ritual starts, we all die. And I'll kill anyone who comes near Dawn."
Spike: "Not exactly the St. Crispins Day speech."
Giles: "'We few, we happy few...'"
Spike: "'We band of buggered...'"
if u understand the context, and know that Giles and Spike were Brits, it's hilarious.

"I'll be back!"

Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!

(Distorted version from "Blazing Saddles"; original "long" version attributed to "Treasure of the Sierra Madre")

My favorite hero speech is by Charlie Chaplin in the 1940 film, "The Great Dictator." In that film he is a Jewish barber, mistaken for Hynkel, who is the film's version of Hitler. At the end of the film he has to give a speech. It is beautiful, but very long, so I have published it to a web page and here is a link to it for anyone who cares to read it:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgj8shxr_19fvbb9hgf

When a man with .45 meets a man with a rifle, you said, the man with a pistol's a dead man. Let's see if that's true. Go ahead, load up and shoot.

Joe (Clint Eastwood) from A Fistful of Dollars


Monco: [counting reward sums of outlaws he just killed] Ten thousand... twelve thousand... fifteen... sixteen... seventeen... twenty-two. Twenty-two?
[a cowboy comes from behind, Monco turns and shoots him dead]
Monco: ...Twenty-seven.
Col. Douglas Mortimer: Any trouble, boy?
Monco: No, old man. Thought I was having trouble with my adding. It's all right now.

Monco (Clint Eastwood) from For a Few Dollars More and Col. Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef).


Man With No Name: [counting Angel Eyes' men] One, two, three, four, five, and six. Six, the perfect number.
Angel Eyes: I thought three was the perfect number.
Man With No Name: I've got six more bullets in my gun.

Man With No Name (Clint Eastwood) from The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly and Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef)

One of my favorite Clint Eastwood dialogues.......Unforgiven

MUNNY:
It's a hell of a thing , killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.

KID:
Yeah. Well, I guess they had it coming.

MUNNY:
We all have it coming, kid.

Scent of a woman

Frank Slade:" I'd show you but I'm too old, I'm too tired, and I'm too f~ckin' blind. If I were the man I was five years ago I'd take a flame-thrower to this place!"

As long as were on a Clint theme.

"I know what you're thinking punk. You're thinking did he fire six shots or only five. And to tell you the truth I forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this is a 44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and will blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question. Do I feel lucky? Well do you, punk?"

Or the ever popular

"A mans got to know his limitations"

John Wayne, as Adm Rock Torey, on the bridge of the cruiser in "In Harm's Way" right before the battle in Palo Passage (mythical) talking with CDR Egan Powell (Burgess Meredith) about being scared before sea battles.

What a great movie that is.

While I'm not really much of a Keanu fan, I liked the huddle speech at the end of The Replacements even if the last bit is recycled...

"I wish I could say something classy and inspirational, but that just wouldn't be our style. Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory... lasts forever."

Ray

Another sports related one. I've loved the Miracle on Ice story since I saw it live. I was giddy when they made a movie out of it. The pregame speech by Herb Brooks is one of the greats. I think Kurt Russell did a great job with it.

"If we played them 10 times they might win 9. But not this game. Not tonight."

the speech on youtube

Ray

I also agree with "dr*audio" on Charlie Chaplin's speech at the end of The Great Dictator.

It is hard to believe that was Charlie Chaplin's first "talkie" considering he had been making movies for over 25 years at the time and sound movies had been in existance for 13 years.

Tom Hanks in Joe VS the Volcano:

Joe Banks: You look terrible, Mr. Waturi. You look like a bag of shit stuffed in a cheap suit. Not that anyone could look good under these zombie lights. I, I, I, I can feel them sucking the juice out of my eyeball. Suck, suck, suck, SUCK... For 300 bucks a week, that's the news. For 300 bucks a week, I've lived in this sink, this used rubber.

Mr. Waturi: You watch it, mister! There's a woman here!

Joe Banks: Don't you think I know that, Frank? Don't you think I am aware there is a woman here? I can smell her, like a flower. I can taste her, like sugar on my tongue. When I'm 20 feet away I can hear the fabric of her dress when she moves in her chair!

Beat me too it!

Tom Joad

"............I'll be there.....!"

Jack Burton from Big Trouble In Little China:

You just listen to the old Pork Chop Express and take his advice on a dark and stormy night when some wild-eyed eight foot tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against a bar room wall, looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if you've paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker in the eye and remember what ol' Jack Burton always says. 'Have you paid your dues, Jack?'
'Yes sir the check is in the mail.'

Or:

Just remember what ol' Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big old storm right in the eye and says, "Give me your best shot. I can take it."

The Day the Earth Stood Still.
(1951)

Klaatu: I am leaving soon, and you will forgive me if I speak bluntly. The universe grows smaller every day, and the threat of aggression by any group, anywhere, can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all, or no one is secure. Now, this does not mean giving up any freedom, except the freedom to act irresponsibly. Your ancestors knew this when they made laws to govern themselves and hired policemen to enforce them. We, of the other planets, have long accepted this principle. We have an organization for the mutual protection of all planets and for the complete elimination of aggression. The test of any such higher authority is, of course, the police force that supports it. For our policemen, we created a race of robots. Their function is to patrol the planets in spaceships like this one and preserve the peace. In matters of aggression, we have given them absolute power over us. This power cannot be revoked. At the first sign of violence, they act automatically against the aggressor. The penalty for provoking their action is too terrible to risk. The result is, we live in peace, without arms or armies, secure in the knowledge that we are free from aggression and war. Free to pursue more... profitable enterprises. Now, we do not pretend to have achieved perfection, but we do have a system, and it works. I came here to give you these facts. It is no concern of ours how you run your own planet, but if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder. Your choice is simple: join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We shall be waiting for your answer. The decision rests with you.

It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.

Jefferson Smith : Mr. Smith Goes To Washington

Just get up off the ground, that's all I ask. Get up there with that lady that's up on top of this Capitol dome, that lady that stands for liberty. Take a look at this country through her eyes if you really want to see something. And you won't just see scenery; you'll see the whole parade of what Man's carved out for himself, after centuries of fighting. Fighting for something better than just jungle law, fighting so's he can stand on his own two feet, free and decent, like he was created, no matter what his race, color, or creed. That's what you'd see. There's no place out there for graft, or greed, or lies, or compromise with human liberties. And, uh, if that's what the grownups have done with this world that was given to them, then we'd better get those boys' camps started fast and see what the kids can do. And it's not too late, because this country is bigger than the Taylors, or you, or me, or anything else. Great principles don't get lost once they come to light. They're right here; you just have to see them again!

Hit it! :D

"You don't win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making the other poor bastard die for his country!"

George C. Scott as General Patton in Patton

Tom

"There's gotta be a hundred years of law experience sitting at this very table. My staff has flunked the bar exam six times."

Matt Damon as Rudy Baylor in "The Rainmaker"

.................R1

To Infinity and Beyond!!!

Buck Rodgers

i don't know the quote verbatim, but it's to the russian general
"i'll drink to that, one son of a bitch to another"

V: Would you... dance with me?
Evey Hammond: Now? On the eve of your revolution?
V: A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having!

Interrogator: I am instructed to inform you that you have been convicted by special tribunal and that unless you are ready to offer your cooperation you are to be executed. Do you understand what I'm telling you?
Evey Hammond: Yes.
Interrogator: Are you ready to cooperate?
Evey Hammond: No.
Interrogator: Very well. Escort Ms. Hammond back to her cell. Arrange a detail of six men and take her out behind the chemical shed and shoot her.
Guard: It's time.
Evey Hammond: I'm ready.
Guard: Look all they want is one little piece of information, just give them something, anything.
Evey Hammond: Thank you, but I'd rather die behind the chemical sheds.
Guard: Then you have no fear any more. You're completely free.

That's a good one!

(Come with me if you want to live) ,,Arnold

So that was Mrs. Lundegaard on the floor in there. And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper. And those three people in Brainerd. And for what? For a little bit of money .There's more to life than money, you know. . . . Don't you know that? And here ya are, and it's a beautiful day. Well, I just don't understand it.

-----Marge Gunderson, Fargo

Sorry, he was my hero growing up.....
 

"Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed.

The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force."

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I can't remember the speech word for word. But it's the one Bluto gave in Animal House, when they got evicted. Always brings a tear to my eye.

"Hello, my name is Inego Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
"The Princess Bride"

When Arnold shots Sharon Stone on Mars............

"Consider this a divorce."

Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules or took a few liberties with our female party guests -- we did. But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few sick, perverted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg ... isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do what you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America!

Otter - "Animal House"

"TAKE OFF, EVERY ZIG!! ...YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DOING, MOVE ZIG!! ...FOR GREAT JUSTICE!!!!" -Proverb (the captain on the 1991 SEGA genesis video game "ZERO WING")

A couple from the Untouchables:

Malone: You said you wanted to get Capone. Do you really wanna get him? You see what I'm saying is, what are you prepared to do?
Eliot Ness: Anything and everything in my power.
Malone: And THEN what are you prepared to do? If you open the can on these worms you must be prepared to go all the way because they're not gonna give up the fight until one of you is dead.
Eliot Ness: How do you do it then?
Malone: You wanna know how you do it? Here's how, they pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone! Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that?

And with apologies to our italian members:

Jim Malone: Isn't that just like a wop? Brings a knife to a gun fight.

Kill Bill V 1

Hattori Hanzo: I'm done doing what I swore an oath to God 28 years ago to never do again. I've created, "something that kills people." And in that purpose I was a success. I've done this, because philosophically I'm sympathetic to your aim. I can tell you with no ego, this is my finest sword. If on your journey, you should encounter God, God will be cut.

Army of Darkness


Ash: Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun.