If you want the song, Lexicon, I have it on MP3. Not sure if it’s on the CD though - I remember the Chasing Amy site had some info on its inclusion. Send me an e-mail if you want it. 
Johnny Depp in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: “San Francisco in the middle '60s was a very special time and place to be a part of. But no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive, in that corner of time in the world, whatever it meant. There was madness in any direction, at any hour you could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. And that, I think, was the handle: that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil. Not in any mean or military sense. We didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum. We were riding the crest, of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas, and look west. And with the right kind of eyes, you can almost see the high-water mark, that place where the wave finally broke, and rolled back.”
Warren Beatty’s TV interview in Bulworth
Any time Malcolm McDowell has a line of dialogue consisting of more than once sentence in A Clockwork Orange
Speaking of Kubrick, have to mention the “Vital Essences” speech by Col. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove.
Aside from Holden’s declaration in Chasing Amy, I also liked Kevin “Silent Bob” Smith’s monologue about Amy.
Anthony Hopkins in front of the Supreme Court at the end of Amistad.
Since someone already did Nick Cave’s intro to Raising Arizona, I’ll offer Sam Elliot’s intro to The Big Lebowski “The Dude was the laziest man in Los Angeles. Which puts him high in the running for laziest man in the world.”
This, of course, is after automatically disqualifying any Shakespeare adaption as “too easy.”
Not one person mentioned Al Pacino’s “opening statement” in And Justice For All? For shame!
Yay! Someone finally came up with a woman’s speech!
Another couple of great monologues that I just remembered:
Michael Douglas’ “greed” speech from Wall Street.
Roy Kinnear’s closing soliloquy in the 1988 A Man for All Seasons
::tips hat to hajario::
Thanks! It reminds me of a similar scene in which a character comes into a scene and takes charge, telling everybody just how it’s gonna be: an episode of L.A. Law (Just checked with an episode guide and I believe it’s the episode “Where There’s A Will” from February 25, 1993)in which Michael Tucker as Stuart Markowitz(the tax lawyer of inexcessive stature) is named as chief heir in a client’s will, causing all sorts of problems with the other heirs.
All of his collegues offer their strong viewpoints on what he should do with the money until he gets fed up and delivers his speech outlining what he’s going to do and straightforwardly telling each party what the consequences will be if they object. Marvelous stuff
The opening monologue from Big Trouble in Little China, which ends
"Next time some eight-foot-tall, wild-eyed maniac taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall and asks you if you’ve paid your dues, well, you just do what ole Jack Burton always does at a time like that. You stare that sucker right back in the eye. “Have you paid your dues, Jack?” “Yes, sir, the check is in the mail.”
Yet another good one is this:
from Dirty Harry. Sweet.
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I wan’t even close with that Glengarry Glen Ross monologue. Here it is, word for word:
"You talkin’ to me? … " - Travis Bickle
As my favorite, I’m going to have go with the Holden monologue in Chasing Amy… :sigh: I know that’s exactly what I’ll feel about whoever I fall in love with…
Some other good ones…
Randal Graves’s Porno monologue in Clerks…when he names off all the sick titles in front of the woman and her kid…absolutely classic… 
Another tear-jerker for me would be Tom Hanks’s monologue in Sleepless in Seattle when he’s telling the radio doctor about his wife…
Dr. Marcia: What are you going to do?
Sam Baldwin: Well, I’m going to get out of bed every morning…breathe in and out all day long. Then, after awhile, I won’t have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out…and then, after awhile, I won’t have to think about how I had it great and prefect for awhile.
Dr. Marcia: Tell me what was so special about your wife?
Sam Baldwin: Well, how long is your program? Well, it was just a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together…and I knew it. I knew it the first time I touched her. It was like coming home…only to no home I’d ever known…I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car…and I knew. It was like…magic.
I always kinda liked DeNiro in Cape Fear:
I am like God, and God like me!
I am as large as God, he is as small as I!
He cannot above me, nor I beneath him be!
I chose this one too. In fact every time Jack waxes philosophic I love it. “I never drive faster than I can see…”
I also have to go with James Stewart’s monologue in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
My fav monologue, not yet mentioned, is from an obscure 1968 George Segal movie, “Bye Bye Braverman,” unfortunately not available on VHS or DVD, but it does pop up on cable.
Segal finds himself at one of those vast New York cemetaries with acres of chest-high headstones. He is miked closely, but the camera first shows him far off in the distance, quite obscured by the stones. As he makes his way toward the camera, which never moves or zooms, he is talking to the graves, telling the people what has happened in the world since they died, sort of “what’s hot, what’s not.” It’s a charming, rambling monologue that I wish I had a transcript of.
Needless to say, Segal gets no reply. It’s not a Stephen King flick, after all.
I can’t for the life of me find the quote, but the monologue that all ways stuck with me was Gergory Pecks closing statement to the court in “To Kill A Mockingbird”.
The speech Kenneth Branagh gave in Henry V. I wish I remembered it, I’ll have to look it up. Great! Very stirring.
Another one by a woman, and Coldfire, the other great monologue from Bull Durham:
“I believe in the church of baseball.
I’ve tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I’ve worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, trees, mushrooms, and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic’s rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance. But it just didn’t work out between us. The Lord laid too much guilt on me. I prefer metaphysics to theology. You see, there’s no guilt in baseball. And it’s never boring. . . . It’s a long season and you gotta trust it. I’ve tried 'em all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the church of baseball.”
– Annie Savoy, opening speech in the movie Bull Durham
Scotty explaining how he was duped to Judy (“You were a very apt pupil!”)–Vertigo
HAL’s trying to talk Dave out of pulling the plug (“I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going”)–2001: A Space Odyssey
Norval Jones declares his lifelong love to Trudy Kockenlocker (“Cooking wasn’t so bad, but sewing…”)–The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Rev. Powell talks about LOVE and HATE with his hands (“These fingers has veins that run straight to the soul of man”)–Night of the Hunter
President Muffley on the phone with Premiere Kissoff (“Well, then, as you say, we’re both coming through fine”)–Dr. Strangelove
Plus the two stunning erotic confessions in Godard’s Weekend and Bergman’s Persona
And then of course, there’s my sig
A couple of good ones in All About Eve.
I particularly like the one where Margo (Bette Davis) finally sums up her disatisfactions and comes to terms with what kind of person she is becoming:
Then earlier in the movie you have Bill Sampson’s (Gary Merrill) definition of “theater”:
“Who’s he that wishes so?
My cousin Westmorland? O no, fair cousin;
If we are marked to die, we are enough
To do our country loss, and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honor.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more;
Rather proclaim it, Westmorland, through my host
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse.
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship, to die with us.
This day is called the feast of Crispian;
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Shall stand a-tiptoe when this day is named
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and sees old age,
Shall yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors
And say, “Tomorrow is Saint Crispin’s Day.”
Then shall he strip his sleeve, and show his scars,
And say, “These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.”
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot;
But he’ll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day; then shall our names,
Familiar in their mouths as household words –
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester –
Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by
From this day to the ending of the world
But we in it shall be remembered:
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers,
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition.
And gentlemen in England now abed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap, whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s Day.”
That one?
You beat me to it Katisha.
Of course she could have been talking about…
Once more into the breach dear friends or wall it up with you English dead.
or,
Will you yeild and this avoid or guilty and defence and be thus destroyed. What say you?
So other favs
Schindlers List
Raphe Fines gives a great speech before they go and ‘clean out’ the ghetto. “Today is history” Very chilling.
Of course the greatest speech in the history of entertainment is
Space
The Final Frontier
These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise
Her five year mission, to seek out new life, new civilizations
To boldly go where no man has go before