Hugh Jackman Monologues

The past can haunt a man. That's what they say. That the past is just a series of moments. Each one perfect. Complete. A bead on the necklace of time. The past doesn't haunt us. Wouldn't even recognize us. If there are ghosts to be found, it's us who haunt the past. We haunt it, so we can look again. See the people we miss, and the things we missed about them.

No such thing as a happy ending. All endings are sad. Especially if the story was happy.

Nothing is more addictive than the past. Who wouldn't want to be reunited with a loved one? Or relive the most meaningful moments of their life? But memories, even good ones, have a voracious appetite. If you're not careful, they consume you.

Memory is the boat that sails against its current.

You're going on a journey. A journey through memory. Your destination? A place and time you've been before. To reach it, all you have to do is follow my voice.

Memories are like perfume. Better in small doses.

Dying men always want closure. Some last, happy thought to cling to before they die.

Only the rich mold the world to meet their delusions.

Your best moments aren't behind you. They're waiting for your arrival.

Nostalgia never goes out of style.

People love their secrets. They think secrets are the one thing they can take with them when they go.

Forgotten things can always be fished up and dusted off. But the lost, those things people never really took much notice of until they were gone. They're defined by their absence.

What other ending could there be?"

People don't just disappear.

Pray for the best, but prepare for the worst.

He's not a person anymore. No, he stopped being a person when he took our daughters.

Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours, now and forever. Amen.

You know the most important thing your granddad ever taught me? Hmm? Be ready. Hurricane, flood, whatever it ends up being. No more food gets delivered to the grocery store, gas stations dry up. People just turn on each other, and uh, all of a sudden all that stands between you and being dead is you.

You wasted your time… you wasted your time following me. You let that happen.

Detective, Detective. Two little girls have gotta be worth whatever little rule you gotta break to keep that asshole in custody. Now, I know you can't promise me anything, I understand that. But I'm asking you, be sure. Be 100% sure…

Why aren't you sending someone out to go arrest this guy?

That asshole you promised me you'd keep in custody... Right? And you didn't... And right now, when I grabbed him in the parking lot, he said right to my fucking face, "They didn't cry until I left them." Right to my fucking face!

Right now! Yeah! What did I just say? In the parking lot! Before you grabbed me off him.

Every day she's wondering why I'm not there! Not you, but me!

Someone has to make him talk or they're gonna die!

Where is my daughter? I'm not having Christmas without my daughter!

I don't think you are considering all the possibilities!

No one cares about the man in the box, the man who disappears.

You never understood why we did this. The audience knows the truth: the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you… then you got to see something really special. You really don't know? It was… it was the look on their faces…

In my travels, I have seen the future… And it is a strange future indeed. The world, ladies and gentleman, is on the brink of new, terrifying possibilities.

What you are about to witness is not magic. It is purely science. I would like to invite you to come up on stage now so that you can examine the machine for yourselves.