Monologues From Plays

What are some good audition monologues?

I need a modern monologue, can be from television, a movie, or a play. Any suggestions on some really good ones?... I would really enjoy comedy...so good comedic ones would be great!!^_^ thanx

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1. Hamlet's To Be or Not To Be, The opening speech of "Patton", The vineyard talk to his son in "The Godfather".
2. Are you male or female and what age? What is the required length of the monologue? There is a difference in contemporary and modern. There are books of actors monologues that you should look through. All of these are from plays. If this is for an audition, you might ask the director what he or she is sick of hearing. I would suggest you choose something from a character that is similar to your own age.
3. from legally blonde: Elle: (on a roll, speaking quickly) And wouldn't somebody who had, say, 30 perms before in their life be well aware of this rule, and if in fact you weren't washing your hair as I suspect you weren't because your curls are still intact, wouldn't you have heard the gunshot, and if in fact you had heard the gunshot Brooke Windum wouldn't have had time to hide the gun before you got downstairs. Which means you would have had to found Brooke Windum with a gun in her hand to make your story plausible, isn't that right? or Mean Girls written by Tina Fey, from the book by Rosalind Wiseman Regina: Let me tell you something about Janis Ian. We were best friends in middle school. (makes a face) I know right, it's soooo embarrassing. I don’t even…whatever. So then in eighth grade I started going out with my first boyfriend Kyle, who was totally gorgeous but then he moved to Indiana--and Janis was like, weirdly jealous of him. Like if I would blow her off to hang out with Kyle, she'd be like "Why didn't you call me back?!" and I'd be like, "Uh, why are you so obsessed with me?" So then for my birthday party, which was an all girls pool party, I was like, "Janyce I can't invite you because I think you're a lesbian" I mean, I couldn't have a lesbian at my party! There were going to be girls there in their bathing suits! I mean right, she was a lesbian! So then her mom called my mom and started yelling at her and it was so retarded and then she dropped out of school 'cause no one would talk to her and she came back in the fall for high school and her hair was all cut off and she was totally weird and now I guess she's on crack. (gasps and turns) Oh my God! I love your skirt, where did you get it? Lea: It was my mom's in the '80s. Regina: Vintage, so adorable. Lea: Thanks. (Lea walks away.) Regina: That is the ugliest effing skirt I've ever seen. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby written by Will Ferrell & Adam McKay Susan: It's because it's what you love, Ricky. It is who you were born to be. And here you sit. Thinking. Well, Ricky Bobby is not a thinker. Ricky Bobby is a driver. He is a doer, and that's what you need to do. You don't need to think. You need to drive. You need speed. You need to go out there, and you need to rev your engine. You need to fire it up. You need to grab ahold of that line between speed and chaos, and you need to wrestle it to the ground like a demon cobra. And then, when the fear rises up in your belly, you use it. And you know that fear is powerful, because it has been there for billions of years. And it is good. And you use it. And you ride it; you ride it like a skeleton horse through the gates of hell, and then you win, Ricky. You WIN! And you don't win for anybody else. You win for you, you know why? Because a man takes what he wants. He takes it all. And you're a man, aren't you? Aren't you? Ricky Bobby: Susan, I've never heard you talk like that... Are we about to get it on? Because I'm as hard as a diamond in an ice storm right now. The Faculty written by Kevin Williamson Marybeth: Caaasseey...come out, come out where ever you are (walking through the aisles of lockers) You know in my world Casey there were limitless oceans as far as the eye can see. Beautiful, huh? Till it started to dry out. So I excaped came here, and I met you, all of you, all of you were different from the others. You were lost and lonely, just like me. And I thought that maybe i could give you a taste of my world. A world without anger, without fear, without attitude. Where the under atchiever goes home at night to parents that care. The jock can be smart, the ugly duckling beautiful, and the class wuss doesnt have to live in terror. The new girl - well - the new girl she can just fit right in with anybody. people who are just like her. You see Casey, even Marybeth's feelings can be hurt by a bunch of pathetic, lost, little outcasts who truly believe that their disaffected lonely life is the only way they can survive. I can make you apart of something so special Casey, so perfect, so fearless....Don't you want that Casey? Casey (Elijah Wood): (shouting) I'd rather be afraid! Marybeth: Fine. Alright. Have it your way. Cause this is where your land of fiction gets it right. We win. End of story.
4. it kind of depends on what you're auditioning for. If it's for an agent then you need to find something that you think really fits your type. I really like using a monologue from "M. Butterfly" by Henry David Hwang. There's also some good stuff by John Patrick Shanley, but those really attest to what I believe to be my type.