I'm starting to do a little acting. Help me pick some audition monologues.

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I have always thought that chapter 37 of Moby Dick would make a good monologue for an actor.

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There’s a lot of advice to be garnered also for cold script readings, whether open (Everyone sees everyone audition) or closed.

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If you’re looking for middle-aged white guy rants, pretty much anything from Micheal Douglas’s character in Falling Down. Basically a textbook example of middle-90s, middle-aged, middle-classed white guy rage at discovering that “following all the rules” no longer meant automatically winning at life.

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How about some Quentin Tarantino?

Dennis Hopper to Christopher Walken in True Romance

Christopher Walken – the Gold Watch from Pulp Fiction

Christoph Waltz from Inglorious Basterds

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Thanks for all the suggestions. I always found the Jessup courtroom speech a bit over the top for me. I’ll look into Falling Down. I’ve never actually seen that movie.

I’m still pondering maybe a romance movie. Maybe John Mahoney’s bit in Moonstruck about why he chases younger women: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz6UbMruN7k

ETA:

Man, just when I think I’ve settled on my “intense” one, you guys keep making me rethink my selection.