Speech quotes

“- Avron: Jakob Heym may not be the Messiah, but he could be a prophet.
- Herschel: Prophets speak in the name of God. All the pancake vendor has got is a radio!
- Avron: He's saying the same thing Isaiah said, people of Israel, I will lead you out of bondage.
- Frankfurter: Out of bondage. If this is what we get from Isaiah, I can't wait to find...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Jeter - Avron
Mathieu Kassovitz - Herschel

“- Deanna Troi: You needn't worry. I'm going to brief your new counselor on everthing she needs to know.
- Jean-Luc Picard: Oh, like hell you are. You already know too much about me. But I take it that there will be no speeches during the ceremony on Betazed?
- William Riker: No, no speeches and... no clothes.”
Marina Sirtis - Deanna Troi
Sir Patrick Stewart - Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes - William Riker

“- Holly Gennaro McClane: After all your posturing, all your little speeches, you're nothing but a common thief.
- Hans Gruber: I am an exceptional thief, Mrs. McClane.”
Bonnie Bedelia - Holly Gennaro McClane
Alan Rickman - Hans Gruber

“Excuse me, ladies. You may remember me as the guy who came to dinner a few weeks ago with underwear on my head. My name is Keith Stat from Millburn, New Jersey. State bird, the mosquito. And as you may have heard, I am recently a crowned class B dungeon master. So if any of you would like to play D&D today, please speak now or forever hold your...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gabriel Millman - Keith - Caped Boy

“Fourscore and... Seven minutes ago, we, your forefathers, were brought forth upon a most excellent adventure, conceived by our new friends: Bill and Ted. These two great gentlemen are dedicated to a proposition, which was true in my time, just as it's true today. Be excellent to each other, and... Party on, dudes!”
Robert V. Barron - Abraham Lincoln

- Fozzie Bear as Fozziewig: My speech! Here's my Christmas speech. Ahem. "Thank you all, and Merry Christmas".
- Jacob Marley: That was the speech?
- Robert Marley: It was dumb!
- Jacob Marley: It was obvious!
- Robert Marley: It was pointless!
- Jacob Marley: It was... short!
Frank Oz - Fozzie Bear as Fozziewig
Jerry Nelson - Jacob Marley
Dave Goelz - Robert Marley

“I want a world where Frank Junior and all the Frank Juniors can sit under a shade tree, breathe the air, swim in the ocean, and go into a 7-Eleven without an interpreter. I want a world where I can eat a sea otter without getting sick! I want a world where the democrats will put somebody up there worth voting for! I may not get there with you,...” (continue)(continue reading)

Leslie William Nielsen - Frank Drebin

- Veronica: You know, I have a little prepared speech I tell my suitor when he wants more than I'd like to give him. "Gee, blank, I had a really nice...".
- Brad: Save the speeches for Malcolm X, I just want to get laid.
- Veronica: You don't deserve my fucking speech.
Winona Ryder - Veronica
Kent Stoddard - Brad

“- Kathy Morningside: New Jersey, as you know, there are many who consider the Miss United States Pageant to be outdated and anti-feminist. What would you say to them?
- Gracie Hart: Well, I would have to say: I used to be one of them. And then I came here and I realized that these women are smart, terrific people who are just trying to make a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Candice Bergen - Kathy Morningside
Sandra Bullock - Gracie Hart
Sir Michael Caine - Victor Melling

“Oh, brothers! We have all gathered here, to preserve our hallowed culture and heritage! We aim to pull evil up by the root, before it chokes out the flower of our culture and heritage! And our women, let's not forget those ladies, y'all. Looking to us for protection! From darkies, from Jews, from papists, and from all those smart-ass folks say...” (continue)(continue reading)

Wayne Duvall - Homer Stokes

“Why is there always someone who brings eggs and tomatoes to a speech?”

Danny DeVito - Penguin

“Ladies and gentlemen, I apologize for my hesitation in rising just now, but to tell you the simple truth, I'd entirely failed, while listening to the chairman's flattering description of the next speaker, to realize he was talking about me.”

Robert Donat - Hannay

“That was a dumb monolouge.”

Adrien Brody - Harry

“- Taylor Vaughan: Careful of what? Ok, I could win this thing in flourescent lighting, on the first day of my period, cloaked in T.J. Max. Ok? My mother was prom queen in '71, my cousin: prom queen in '82, and my sister would have been prom queen in '94 if it wasn't for that scam on the Conway Bed tour bus, okay? I am a goddamn legacy, all...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe - Taylor Vaughan
Gabrielle Union - Katie

“It's a form of self-expression. Some people write books. Some people write music. I make speeches on street corners.”
Cary Grant - Leopold Dilg

“Mom, is this a sex talk?!”
Juliette Lewis - Carla

“In Rome today, the Pope issued a message of hope for believers in their fight against what he termed the godless and lost. He offered a prayer for the young, whom he described as sadly in need of faith and not the illusion of conviction offered by rock music, drugs and contemporary poetry.”
Reggie Harris - Anchorman

- Paul: Where was I?
- Ted: You were about to give your "let's keep our shit together" speech.
John Furey - Paul
Stuart Charno - Ted

“I could make Mother Teresa look unfit to run an orphanage without telling a single lie.”
Richard Crenna - Mitchell

“President Ford, in his foreign policy speech, hardly referred to Cambodia... except to say that, as of now, it may be too late.”

“Ladies and Gentlemen. I guess that takes in most of you. This is the opening of a new opera season, a season made possible by the generous checks of Mrs. Claypool.”
Groucho Marx - Otis B. Driftwood

“Maybe I should thank someone else. Someone who's really been there, someone who taught me a lot, about poetry and Shakespeare, and just staying awake, man. Someone who's just an overall great guy, a great teacher... to Howard Brackett from Greenleaf, Indiana!”
Matt Dillon - Cameron Drake

“President Nixon has announced that he will address the nation on the Water Gate case within the next few days. The speech will be Mr. Nixon's first comments since May on the scandal which has resulted in resignations and nearly paralyzed the White House staff. It has also led to a tense confrontation, and perhaps a constitutional crises, with...” (continue)(continue reading)

“He who gets the first soundbite wins.”
Charlie Sheen - Bobby Bishop