The Princess Bride (Inigo Montoya)
Hello. My Name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
5 Best William Goldman Monologues
The Princess Bride (Vizzini)
But it’s so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you. Are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet, or his enemy’s? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
The Princess Bride (Westley)
There’s a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.
Misery (Annie Wilkes)
When I was growing up in Bakersfield, my favorite thing in all the world was to go to the movies on Saturday afternoons for the Chapter Plays. … I know that, Mr. Man! They also called them serials. I’m not stupid ya know… Anyway, my favorite was Rocket Man and once it was a no breaks chapter. The bad guy stuck him in a car on a mountain road and knocked him out and welded the door shut and tore out the brakes and started him to his death, and he woke up and tried to steer and tried to get out but the car went off a cliff before he could escape! And it crashed and burned and I was so upset and excited, and the next week, you better believe I was first in line. And they always start with the end of the last week. And there was Rocket Man, trying to get out, and here comes the cliff, and just before the car went off the cliff, he jumped free. And all the kids cheered! But I didn’t cheer. I stood right up and started shouting. This isn’t what happened last week! Have you all got amnesia? They just cheated us! This isn’t fair! He didn’t get out of the cockadoodie car!
All the President’s Men (Ben Bradlee)
You know once when I was reporting, Lyndon Johnson’s top guy gave me the word; they’re looking for a successor to J. Edgar Hoover. I wrote it and the day that it appeared, Johnson held a press conference and appointed Hoover the head of the FBI for life. When he was done, turned to his top guy and the President said call Ben Bradlee and tell him, “Fuck you.” Now everyone said you did it Ben, you screwed up, you stuck us with Hoover forever. I screwed up, but I wasn’t wrong. … How much can you tell me about Deep Throat? … You trust him? … I can’t do the reporting for my reporters which means I have to trust them and I hate trusting anybody. … Run that baby.