4 Best Morgan Freeman Monologues

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The Shawshank Redemption (Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding)

The Shawshank Redemption (Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding)

Category: Movie Role: Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding From: The Shawshank Redemption

Rehabilitated? Well, now, let me see. You know, I don’t have any idea what that means. I know what you think it means, sonny. To me, it’s just a made up word. A politician’s word, sonny. Young fellas like yourself can wear a suit and a tie and have a job. What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did? There’s not a day goes by I don’t feel regret. Not because I’m in here. Because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then. A young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try to talk some sense to him. Tell him the way things are. But I can’t. That kid’s long gone and this old man’s all that’s left. I got to live with that. Rehabilitated? That’s just a bullshit word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Because, to tell you the truth, I don’t give a shit.

Lean on Me (Joe Louis Clark)

Lean on Me (Joe Louis Clark)

Category: Movie Role: Joe Louis Clark From: Lean on Me

You may sit down, Mr. O’Malley. You think you can run this school? If you could, then I wouldn’t be here, would I? No one talks in my meetings. NO ONE! You take out your pencils and write. I want the names of every hoodlum, drug dealer, and miscreant who’s done nothing but take this place apart on my desk by noon today. Reverend Slappy…you are now the chief custodian, Reverend Slappy. You will scour this building clean. Graffiti goes up is off the next day. Is that clear?… Detention students can help you. Let them scrub this place for awhile, and tear down those cages in the cafeteria. You treat them like animals, that’s exactly how they’ll behave! This is my new Dean of Security, Mr. William Wright. He will be my Avenging Angel, as you teachers reclaim the halls. This is an institution of learning, ladies and gentlemen. If you can’t control it, how can you teach?! Discipline is not the enemy of enthusiasm! Mr. Zorella…Mr. Zorella, you are now my new Head Football Coach. Mr. Darnell. Stand up, Mr. Darnell. Mr. Darnell will be your assistant. You know why you’re being demoted, Mr. Darnell? Because I’m sick and tired of our football team getting pushed all over the field. Thank you. Sit down. I want precision. I want a weight program. And if you don’t like it, Mr. Darnell, you can quit.

Invictus (Nelson Mandela)

Invictus (Nelson Mandela)

Category: Movie Role: Nelson Mandela From: Invictus

Out of the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole / I thanks whatever gods may be, for my unconquerable soul. / In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud / Under the bludgeonings of fate, my head is bloody, but unbowed. / Beyond this place of wrath and tears, looms but the horror of the shade / and yet, the menace of the years finds, and shall find me, unafraid. / It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishment the scroll / I am the master of my fate – I am the captain of my soul.

Glory (John Rawlins)

Glory (John Rawlins)

Category: Movie Role: John Rawlins From: Glory

And who are you? So full of hate that you have to fight everybody, because you’ve been whipped and chased by hounds. Well that might not be living, but it sure as hell ain’t dying. And dying’s been what these white boys have been doing for going on three years now, dying by the thousands, dying for you, fool. And all this time I keep askin’ myself, when, O Lord, when gonna be our time? Gonna come a time when we all gonna hafta ante up and kick in like men! Like men! You watch who you callin’ nigger! If there’s any niggers around here, it’s you, just some stupidass, swamp runnin’ nigger, and if you not careful, that’s all you ever gonna be!