2 Best James Mangold Monologues

Walk the Line (Sam Phillips)

Walk the Line (Sam Phillips)

Category: Movie Role: Sam Phillips From: Walk the Line

Bring… bring it home? All right, let’s bring it home. If you was hit by a truck and you was lying out there in that gutter dying, and you had time to sing one song. Huh? One song that people would remember before you’re dirt. One song that would let God know how you felt about your time here on Earth. One song that would sum you up. You tellin’ me that’s the song you’d sing? That same Jimmy Davis tune we hear on the radio all day, about your peace within, and how it’s real, and how you’re gonna shout it? Or… would you sing somethin’ different. Somethin’ real. Somethin’ you felt. Cause I’m telling you right now, that’s the kind of song people want to hear. That’s the kind of song that truly saves people. It ain’t got nothin to do with believin’ in God, Mr. Cash. It has to do with believin’ in yourself.

Girl Interrupted (Susanna Kaysen)

Girl Interrupted (Susanna Kaysen)

Category: Movie Role: Susanna Kaysen From: Girl Interrupted

Declared healthy and sent back into the world. My final diagnosis? A recovered borderline. What that means, I still don’t know. Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is. Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret, it’s you, or me, amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it, or wished you could stay a child forever. They were not perfect, but they were my friends and by the 80’s, most of them were out, living lives. Some I’ve seen, some never again, but there isn’t a day my heart doesn’t find them.