Your daughter is a beauty too. MARK "RENT-BOY" RENTON: "Now I've justified this to myself in all sorts of ways. A monologue from the play by Pedro Calderon De La Barca. If love lives by hope, it perishes with it; it is a fire which becomes extinguished for want of fuel; and, in spite of the severity of my sad lot. Here, she starts out talking to Guy, an addict in the group, but expands her confessional to include everyone, finishing up with Guy, who might be the only person who can redeem her. It wasn't just the baby that died that day. Sick Boy's monologue about James Bond movies in . We must never lose it or give it away. The Long Goodbye, was that it? You neednt try to comfort me. Suddenly, you find your whole days blending together to create one endless and suffocating loop. In high school, it was a smile that I faked to get boys to like me. The Long Farewell. If Id known you were going to make my dress as long as that Id rather have stayed thirteen. --Jeff Shannon Genre: Drama Director (s): Danny Boyle Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle Magnesia, milk of, one bottle. Choose your future. Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends. . Did you hear that? They received good food, decent wages, ethical living conditions, and millions more! But I couldnt. I couldve lived with a professor of Middle English, for example, if he was a moral man and had tenure at Princeton. Lets get out of here! Merciful Heaven,Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous boltSplitst the unwedgeable and gnarled oakThan the soft myrtle: but man, proud man,Drest in a little brief authority,Most ignorant of what hes most assured,His glassy essence, like an angry ape,Plays such fantastic tricks before high heavenAs make the angels weep; who, with our spleens,Would all themselves laugh mortal. You have spawned to replace yourself. (gesture with fingers showing a tiny amount) Hes like (speaking in a surfer dude voice) Whatever dude. Totally clueless. Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his fool?By day and night he wrongs me; every hourHe flashes into one gross crime or other,That sets us all at odds: Ill not endure it:His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids usOn every trifle. We all looked at each other then back at Mary as she happily made her way to the stove to put on the kettle. Answer (1 of 5): The magic of Trainspotting is that it's a trip through heroin addiction for the audience, who, one must assume are mostly not heroin addicts. (Pause. Go, go bragHow many ladies you have undone, like me.Fare you well sir; let me hear no more of you.I had a limb corrupted to an ulcer,But I have cut it off: and now Ill goWeeping to heaven on crutches. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Dont you people see whats going on in our country? Your'e cruel but it don't matter no more. Thus let us hope for no advantage, either from his transgression or from my grief, since, to punish me. You know, I guess Ive been heart-broken too many times. For the cancer to come back. Trainspotting has been the cultural phenomenon of 1996. Trainspotting 2 shows a 46-year-old Mark Renton suffering from the same old existential crises, albeit in a different way. O, the cry did knockAgainst my very heart. I think cities have weakened us as a species. Like friends. Your blood ringed my lips as I rushed forth to gather you in my arms, but they wouldnt even let me hold you once more. Then chose to protect me. I must speak with candor when I admit to you that the responsibility for this falls onto my shoulders. It was me. I quite enjoyed the sound of it all. I knew it then. (The play Still Life is part of the anthology Special Days). Youve had fantasies, Im sure; so have I, but were married. Trainspotting 2's story takes place in the present, but it is well rooted in the past. where she struggles to navigate the battlefield of an inner-city high school while keeping her past a secret and striving for an education. In my dreams. Poor souls, they perishd.Had I been any god of power, I wouldHave sunk the sea within the earth or ereIt should the good ship so have swallowd andThe fraughting souls within her. As George, Dear Auntie, I don't think I can stand one more day on this dumb island. When one thinks of women and Elvis Presley, it's either his widow Priscilla, his late daughter Lisa Marie, or the legion of ladies left weak in the knee when the badass kid from Tupelo . A monologue from the tv series created by Vince Gilligan & Peter Gould, Hi. So if you really are here, and youre really not just stopping in to say youre leaving again, youre going to have to do better than this. What am I supposed to do? In a way, I put all my romanticism into that one night, and I was never able to feel all this again. Trainspotting is just a very honest and well-made film about the nature of addiction, and it doesn't pull any punches when it is time to show the alternating pleasure and pain of substance abuse. Scots monologues now online 7th December 2009 Traditional musician, Nigel Gatherer, has collected a number of Scots monologues on his web site. Alas, sir,In what have I offended you? Nothing had prepared me. How to destroy Ellaria Sand, the woman who murdered my only daughter. What do you call this house?Is this your palace? Go on. Maybe were just drifting from moment to moment trying to do what we think is right. It seems, however, I really am the luckiest guy in the world. Most of the time, most days, I feel ..nothing. Choose your future. Ah, Gloucester, teach me to forget myself!For whilst I think I am thy married wifeAnd thou a prince, protector of this land,Methinks I should not thus be led along,Maild up in shame, with papers on my back,And followed with a rabble that rejoiceTo see my tears and hear my deep-fet groans.The ruthless flint doth cut my tender feet,And when I start, the envious people laughAnd bid me be advised how I tread.Ah, Humphrey, can I bear this shameful yoke?Trowst thou that eer Ill look upon the world,Or count them happy that enjoy the sun?No; dark shall be my light and night my day;To think upon my pomp shall be my hell.Sometime Ill say, I am Duke Humphreys wife,And he a prince and ruler of the land:Yet so he ruled and such a prince he wasAs he stood by whilst I, his forlorn duchess,Was made a wonder and a pointing-stockTo every idle rascal follower.But be thou mild and blush not at my shame,Nor stir at nothing till the axe of deathHang over thee, as, sure, it shortly will;For Suffolk, he that can do all in allWith her that hateth thee and hates us all,And York and impious Beaufort, that false priest,Have all limed bushes to betray thy wings,And, fly thou how thou canst, theyll tangle thee:But fear not thou, until thy foot be snared,Nor never seek prevention of thy foes. Actually, it started happening last winter. With God's help I'll conquer this terrible affliction. How I loved you! But to be honest I feel like the real opportunities are the ones that fall into your lap. Ive googled it so many times. Im old. If I concentrated long enough I could make the pain appear by an effort of will. One day you will perish. Close your mouth before, "Little do my parents know, but I lead a double life. . Never in all my puff. Eight years ago, November 18, 1968, in Turkey, Richard Moses, the leader of the Turkish people in a town, brought out a revolution! Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. But slowly, your brain begins to erase every memory that ever brought you joy. So why did I do it? My Mom had the same bathrobe in blue. Oh, she said. An inch it is small and it is fragile, and it is the only thing in the world worth having. They wondered aloud who belonged to those people. . Tis foolishness, I ween,To overstep in aught the golden mean. They hook me up to a machine and take turns running electrical currents through my stumps. I cant go to the police. I try to find ways to make myself feel something more and more and more it doesnt make any difference. Drown in its rivers. When my daughter was taken from me, my only daughter well you cant imagine how that feels unless youve lost a child. Its murder. Just to see which fingers twitch a little and which ones remain lifeless. ), A monologue from the play by J. Thalia Cunningham. You chose to murder my daughter. . If you're looking for female monologues, look no further. My therapist, are you in therapy? boiling?In leads or oils? . John Humphrys signed off BBC Radio 4's Today programme yesterday (January 24) by delivering his take on Ewan McGregor's 'Choose Life' monologue from Trainspotting.. Humphrys' monologue . parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon. But tell that to the inmates who are kept in cages and told that they dont have any rights at all. I don't mean to harass you, but I was very impressed with the capable and stylish manner in which you dealt with that situation. (Beat.) I feel my spirit divided into two portions; if my courage is high, my heart is inflamed [with love]. I know! And I know you love me. Relinquishing junk. Al Pacino's monologue about God. I hurt badly! Did not the judge style itA house of penitent whores? At least, we're not that fucking stupid. And the wolf has no interest in your dreams. The thought of this lovely face cracking open like a duck egg, no, its just not right. It became the mystery of our street. what old or newer tortureMust I receive, whose every word deservesTo taste of thy most worst? Quiet student by day (look innocent) and superhero Dinoboy by night. Why have you made my dress so long, Mother? Far from the cities that have paved the world away, and the farms which had turned it into a resource. Or traded drugs with cancer victims, alcoholics, old-age pensioners, AIDS patients, epileptics, and bored housewives. But why would I want to do a thing like that? If the pilot had banked left instead of right, if the south had won the war in Vietnam, if the Russians hadnt beat us to the moon. Your bones will turn to sand. My second joyAnd first-fruits of my body, from his presenceI am barrd, like one infectious. Video: YouTube 1 268 VOTES A Streetcar Named Desire - Blanche He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. Your father made you believe otherwise. The movie attracts and inspires students like me to live by the motto, Leisure Rules., Yes I know you are thinking that how do I know about you. You could come home tomorrow and its fine. They whispered in my ear how they wanted to marry me and take me back to their castles. I didnt want your son, Michael! No books. They shoved each other and threatened to duel when they thought it was their turn to dance. And upon that sand a new god will walk. The IRA was nowhere near as scary as what had just happened to our lives. Some hate the English. ( taglines) Contents 1 Renton And Sick Boy, well he'd done the same to me, if he'd only thought of it first. (Beat.) Who's this? Or which of your friendsHave I not strove to love, although I knewHe were mine enemy? Now you may think that you are too damaged and too broken to allow yourself to be happy, but you can choose differently Simon. Tomato soup, ten tins of. What have I got, Harry? I killed my family. Im tired of pretending that I cannot continue acting as as if I do not love you. Im crying for you. (Pause. This bridal is fatal to me, I fear it, and [yet] I desire it; I dare to hope from it only an incomplete joy; my honor and my love have for me such attractions. Its terrifying. Like the whole thing at the train station. while things like Norsefire and the Articles of Allegiance became powerful. It was the most precious moment of my life so far. One bucket for urine, one for feces and one for vomitus. But when you say it, Im looking at you, I believe you actually mean it. Choose life. Wouldnt you want to improve it? A great memorable quote from the Trainspotting movie on Quotes.net - Begbie: Picture the scene: The other f***in' week there, doin' the f***in' Volley with Tommy, playing pool. . It was more than just a film quote, it. I was meant to burn there, with everything else. They took Ruth while she was out buying food. Oh, Michael. The eponymous 1996 film by Danny Boyle distilled these themes and characters and focused on . Because here doesnt care. . . Free Female Monologues for Acting Auditions. Ice cream, vanilla, one large tub of. They gave us drugs, slitting our foreheads with razors so cocaine would go directly into the bloodstream. I like the way I feel. There is no alternative to justice in this case. Another way of proving that this is a classic narrated Hollywood film is by looking at what Bordwell (2005), states as the action revolving around a central character that by the end of the film fulfills his/her goal. I took all three this morning and now I've got eighteen hours to go until my next shot. Now I wish you would tell mewhy didnt it happen between us? It's a SHITE state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and ALL the fresh air in the world won't make any fucking difference! Comedy Movies. My paralysis. Here I was surrounded by my family and my so-called mates and I've never felt so alone. I tell her that if maybe we had people around she would start to feel better. Or make it a better place for all of us to live in? And I never even asked you for a God damn thing!!! I have hit my mom in the face. Otherwise we wouldn't do it. What I am is a survivor. I sit there and look at the website and imagine. Think precisely! Watch the showhttps://youtu.be/id1zNMvAQ0U, A monologue from the tv series created by Chris Van Dusen. Until today. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. And when the devil comes to strip that love from you, there is no funeral or song or speeches that dull our senses and deaden our hearts. Your'e a dirty rat and your dead body is just the welcome I need to leave you. Never let your friends tie you to the tracks. for allThy by-gone fooleries were but spices of it.That thou betraydst Polixenes,twas nothing;That did but show thee, of a fool, inconstantAnd damnable ingrateful: nor wast much,Thou wouldst have poisond good Camillos honour,To have him kill a king: poor trespasses,More monstrous standing by: whereof I reckonThe casting forth to crows thy baby-daughterTo be or none or little; though a devilWould have shed water out of fire ere donet:Nor ist directly laid to thee, the deathOf the young prince, whose honourable thoughts,Thoughts high for one so tender, cleft the heartThat could conceive a gross and foolish sireBlemishd his gracious dam: this is not, no,Laid to thy answer: but the last,O lords,When I have said, cry woe! the queen, the queen,The sweetst, dearst creatures dead,and vengeance fortNot droppd down yet. Like we were all in it together. Thank you, your honor. Weiss. And if you cant work up a winter passion for me, the least I require is respect and allegiance! Yea, for these laws were not ordained of Zeus,And she who sits enthroned with gods below,Justice, enacted not these human laws.Nor did I deem that thou, a mortal man,Couldst by a breath annul and overrideThe immutable unwritten laws of Heaven.They were not born today nor yesterday;They die not; and none knoweth whence they sprang.I was not like, who feared no mortals frown,To disobey these laws and so provokeThe wrath of Heaven. I know why you made that vow to your father. Fight Club Monologue. A monologue from the screenplay by Robert Harling. (Pause. I think nature is really going to help. But I couldn't. Nothing had prepared me. From the play Hello, Goodbye, Peace. I am not yet divorced, Im being investigated by the FBI, Im carrying the child of another man and Im not really a junkie. Then I asked him to tell me how it's gonna be in the future, at our farm. My sister is taking care of my children in Africa. Bide my time. Liberal views on gender are apparent in Renton's monologue about the differing norms of the 1990s and suggests that "one thousand years from now their will be no guys and no girls". Im not even allowed to have friends over because theyll interfere with her depression. (Detective doesnt answer.) We took morphine, diamorphine, cyclizine, codeine, temazepam, nitrazepam, phenobarbitone, sodium amytal, dextropropoxyphene, methadone, nalbuphine, pethidine, pentazocine, buprenorphine, dextromoramide, chlormethiazole. I command all of you to listen to me and support me! Thats their line of crap. Right?!. 6. Read the play here Folger| No Fear Shakespeare, Watch the movie 2010 (Helen Mirren)|2017 (Royal Shakespeare Company). And Guy, you are such a good decent man. Id like to help you out with that myself, if thats all right with you. It said: This is the New World and in this world you can be whoever the f*** you want. She was always one step ahead of the landlord. It hurts so much. .for they, when hunters steal their youngferociously pursueand slay them, till they reach the seaand plunge beneath its waves.Not tigresses, but timid hares,not Spaniards, but barbarians,too chicken-hearted to denyyour women to other men!Why not wear distaffs at your waists?Why gird on useless swords?I swear to God we women aloneshall make those tyrants payfor our indignities, and billthose traitors for our blood.And you, you effete effeminates,I sentence to be stonedas spinsters, pansies, queens and cowards,and forced henceforth to wearour bonnets and our overskirts,with painted, powdered faces.Our valorous Commander meansto have Frondoso hangeduncharged, untried and uncondemnedfrom yonder battlements.Hell serve all you unmanly menthe same, and Ill rejoice;for when this honourable townis womanless, that ageshall dawn which once amazed the world,the age of Amazons. Is not that glimmer there afar That dying exhalation that pale star A tiny taper, which, with trembling blazeFlickering twixt struggling flames and dying rays,With ineffectual sparkMakes the dark dwelling place appear more dark?Yes, for its distant light,Reflected dimly, brings before my sightA dungeons awful gloom,Say rather of a living corse, a living tomb;And to increase my terror and surprise,Drest in the skins of beasts a man there lies:A piteous sight,Chained, and his sole companion this poor light.Since then we cannot fly,Let us attentive to his words draw nigh,Whatever they may be. Choose a starter home. Id throw my things in a cardboard box and run outside in my pajamas in bare feet. Then the death of my son in a car accident, the murder of my husband, then alcoholism, depression, grief, and every death leading up to this trial. They they take needles and poke at my hands. Because this isnt a convention weekend with your secretary, is it? No matter how often you go out and rob and fuck people over, you always need to get up and do it all over again. That almost happened to me once, Mary. And when I got married, I threw myself into becoming a Keating, and it was all to create a version of myself that the world would accept. Like it meant something. These feelings of futility in relation to my work. Your horrors effaced. Here she is talking to a detective about the crime. I mean, just what am I striving to create anyway? No teachers. But I chose to find out.. Beating a woman doesn't do shit and I'm gona laugh when everything you wish for crumbles down. I drove up to the hospital in old betsie for me usual afternoon visit after a cracker of a day at work, only to find out the angels had taken her. 1883 . I was there that day when Ser Gregor crushed your lovers head. I like to think about all the people who tended and picked the grapes. I am ambitious, black, bisexual, angry, sad, strong, sensitive, scared, fierce, talented, exhausted. It's on its way. "Curse of the Starving Class" by Sam Shepard - Emma "Shepard's dexterity with language and character arcs make each moment of this. A monologue from the play by Winsome Pinnock. It was awful. The truth is, I have no fashion sense never did. A few years later my dad got remarried to a lovely woman. It's SHITE being Scottish! Ive lived next door to you all the days of my life. A vision that tells us that we belong to something that is greater then ourselves, that we are *not*, that none of us are alone! Your daughter will die here in this cell and youll be here watching as she does, youll be here the rest of your days. He chose to love me back. Brienne the Beauty they called me. fires] in order to extinguish my own. Fuck it, we would have injected vitamin C if only they'd made it illegal. His knife was in my back as we carried our guns out into the bush. Depression, boredom You feel so fucking low, you want to fucking top yourself. I loved you as long ago as the time I asked you to read the stone angels with your fingers. Now youre supposed to be here, but youre gone at the same time, sort of like . And that is my story! Just peace. (Undine realizes the addicts are eavesdropping and finds herself including them in her confessional.). Everything will be okay in the end. . So, stop complaining about foolish people. . But sometimes. Oh, this one has three bedrooms. But finally we all realized there was no hope. Sprit-crushing ga me shows. Can we start over? Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Trainspotting (Film) Summary Character List Cast List Director's Influence Glossary Themes Quotes and Analysis Summary And Analysis Scene 1 ("Choose Life") - Scene 6 (Suppositories) Scene 7 ("no longer constipated") - Scene 16 ("Begbie did people") Scene 17 ("something important missing") - Scene 26 (Edinburgh festival) But under the circumstances I'll settle for anywhere. Making you want to leave again? about long-term improvement and adaptive skills for the real world and all that sh*t. It was time to go out fighting again. As in, the famous Trainspotting Renton monologue has been given an update that millennials will appreciate. Im alone. a weak and divided person who stood in adoring awe of your singleness, of your strength. Out here, love burns through you like a fever. Gone. He never told lies, he never took drugs, and he never cheated on anyone. I come home tomorrow and Im on the back of a milk carton. Running time is anywhere from 1-2-3 minutes long. stop talking rubbish. I found the letters you wrote to him as a child, and I read them. Surrounded by the illusion of order. Not like 16,000 pounds. It was nice. O heaven! This penitential robe will keep. And wait. Kelly Macdonald in Trainspotting. The physical therapists. Anger, which I guess is a variation of rage and sometimes it gives way to panic, which in my case is also a variation of rage. And remember to be silent about this secret cause even those oldies dont know about this. Instead, I stand before you, mask off, to tell you the Gods honest. Youre good at it. Thy tyrannyTogether working with thy jealousies,Fancies too weak for boys, too green and idleFor girls of nine, O, think what they have doneAnd then run mad indeed, stark mad! Dont let them see your tears, he told me. That should not be up to anyone else. That is, until it peaks, like your 61. It struck me as amusing. Stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. I havent come here on any but equal terms. . And, uh, manipulated me. Sweethearts, half hidden by Willow trees, inhabited personal islands consisting of blankets, absorbed in each other as a group of skins and shirts played a game of two . These past few years have been toilsome and a great burden. And this great name of Cid, which thou hast just now won. I cant even keep you out of my bed. Ive never heard anyone say Im happy and actually feel it. I know now that its over. Something inside Sick Boy was lost and never returned. Mineral water, Lucozade, pornography. All Rights Reserved, 15 Drama Monologues for Women of All Ages, 15 Powerful Drama Monologues for Women from Published Plays, 15 Powerful Female Monologues from 1 Act Plays. Yes, I remember the long afternoons of our childhood, when I had to stay indoors to practice my music. I was the first person in the family to graduate from college. They dont need me. Why did I fail? . .no, worse than tigresses . Which means that the promise of civil rights has never been fulfilled. The only one who doesnt get phone calls? (pause) If wed had a house, Id never would have wanted to leave. The other thing about depression is it kind of collapses time. And Im already dead. I know movings a big deal. So you find yourself trying to remember the things that made you happy. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Most of my life I havent even been able to call you, and forget visiting. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . Black kids dont go into the cafeteria and shoot up everybody or stalk teachers and shoot them. You cant do that. Did I tell this,Who would believe me? There are no reasons. With all my heart, I love you. If you are too weak, you will be eaten. Propelling ourselves with longing towards the day that it would all go wrong, because no matter how much you stash, or how much you steal you never have enough. I thought, Thats true love. Screenplay by: Patty Jenkins. And it was wonderful. Elsa Dutton - 1 (S1 - E1) I remember the first time I saw it. When I saw that my heart could not protect itself, I myself gave away that which I did not dare to take; and I put, in place of my self, Chimne in its fetters, and I kindled their passions [lit. . Look, perjured man, on herWhom thou and thy distracted lust have wronged.Thy sensual rage of blood hath made my youthA scorn to men and angels, and shall IBe now a foil to thy unsated change?Thou knowst, false wanton, when my modest fameStood free from stain or scandal, all the charmsOf Hell or sorcery could not prevailAgainst the honour of my chaster bosom.Thine eyes did plead in tears, they tongue in oathsSuch and so many, that a heart of steelWould have been wrought to pity, as was mine:And shall the conquest of my lawful bed,My husbands death urged on by his disgrace,My loss of womanhood, be ill rewardedWith hatred and contempt? Due to the failure of our justice system, our public defense system in particular, Jim Crow is alive and kicking; laws that made it illegal for blacks and whites to be buried in the same cemetery, that categorized people into quadroons and octaroons, that punished a black person for seeking medical attention in a white hospital. Ill to my brother:Though he hath fallen by prompture of the blood,Yet hath he in him such a mind of honour.That, had he twenty heads to tender downOn twenty bloody blocks, held yield them up,Before his sister should her body stoopTo such abhorrd pollution.Then, Isabel, live chaste, and, brother, die:More than our brother is our chastity.Ill tell him yet of Angelos request,And fit his mind to death, for his souls rest. You might have been a half way decent man if your father raised you right. (They sit in silence for a few beats. A Monologue from the film "Trainspotting" by John Hodge from the book by Irvine Welsh 0 ( 0 votes ) Summary Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) and his buddies try to escape their boring everyday life in Edinburgh, Scoland, by using heroin. Have you ever thought about your living conditions? Id known death since I was a child. Im just a kid. I need to visit the Mother Superior for one hit.