4 Best Michael Mann Monologues

Heat (Lt. Vincent Hanna)

Heat (Lt. Vincent Hanna)

Category: Movie Role: Lt. Vincent Hanna From: Heat

My life’s a disaster zone. I got a stepdaughter so fucked up because her real father’s this large-type asshole. I got a wife, we’re passing each other on the down-slope of a marriage, my third, because I spend all my time chasing guys like you around the block. That’s my life. … You know I have this recurring dream. I’m sitting at this big banquet table and all the victims of all the murders I ever worked are sitting at this table and they’re staring at me with these black eye balls because they got eight ball hemorrhages from their head wounds. And there they are, these big balloon people because I found them two weeks after they’d been under the bed, the neighbors reported the smell. And there they are, all just sitting there. They don’t have anything to say. They just look at each other and then they look at me and that’s it, that’s the dream.

Heat (Neil McCauley)

Heat (Neil McCauley)

Category: Movie Role: Neil McCauley From: Heat

A guy told me one time, “Don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.” Now, if you’re on me and you gotta move when I move, how do you expect to keep a… a marriage? … There’s a flip side to that coin. What if you do got me boxed in and I got to put you down? ‘Cause no matter what you will not get in my way. We’ve been face to face yea, but I will not hesitate, not for a second. … Well, maybe we’ll never see each other again.

Collateral (Annie Farrell)

Collateral (Annie Farrell)

Category: Movie Role: Annie Farrell From: Collateral

I think I’m going to lose. I think the case sucks. My exhibits aren’t in order. I’m not prepared enough. People are going to find out that I don’t know what I’m doing and I’ve been running some charade all these years. I represent the Department of Justice, and my opening statement is going to fall flat at the most important point and the jury is going to laugh at me. And then I cry. I don’t throw up, a lot of people throw up, I have a strong stomach. And then I pull myself together, I rewrite my opening statement, work my exhibits. And that’s what I do for the rest of the night. That’s my routine. In the morning it starts and I’m fine.

Ali (Muhammad Ali)

Ali (Muhammad Ali)

Category: Movie Role: muhammad ali From: ali

I ain’t draft dodging. I ain’t burning no flag, and I ain’t runnin’ to Canada. I’m stayin’ right here. You want to send me to jail? Fine, you go right ahead. I’ve been in jail for 400 years. I could be there for four or five more, but I ain’t goin’ no 10,000 miles to help murder and kill other poor people. If I want to die, I’ll die right here, right now, fightin’ you, if I want to die. You my enemy, not no Chinese, no Vietcong, no Japanese. You my opposer when I want freedom. You my opposer when I want justice. You my opposer when I want equality. Want me to go somewhere and fight for you? You won’t even stand up for me right here in America, for my rights and my religious beliefs. You won’t even stand up for my right here at home.