Best Hero Speeches from Movies or TV
 

Got Some ?

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.