This is one of the best monologue quotes from the movie Don’t Look Up. This speech is made on The Daily Rip talk show by Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, the “hot scientist” Dr. Randall Mindy. It’s very moving and the whole movie is a perfect allegory for the times we’re currently living in:

Here’s the full Don’t Look Up quote transcribed:

Dr. Randall Mindy: No, please, please Brie. Don’t cut away. Let me say something

Jack Bremmer: You came to the right place because on this show, we like to say things…

Dr. Randall Mindy: Would you please, just stop being so pleasant? I’m sorry, but not everything needs to sound so goddamn clever or charming or likeable all the time. Sometimes we need to just be able to say things to one another. We need to hear things! Look, let’s establish, once again, that there is a huge comet headed towards Earth. And the reason we know that there is a comet is because we saw it. We saw it with our own eyes using a telescope. I mean, for God’s sake, we took a fucking picture of it! What other proof do we need? And if we can’t all agree at the bare minimum that a giant comet the size of Mount Everest, hurtling its way towards planet Earth is not a fucking good thing, then what the hell happened to us? I mean, my God, how do… How do we even talk to each other? What’ve we… What’ve we done to ourselves? How do we fix it? We should have deflected this comet when we had the fucking chance, but we didn’t do it. I don’t know why we didn’t do it. And now they’re actually firing scientists like me for speaking out, for opposing them. And I’m sure many of the people out there aren’t even gonna listen to what I just said ’cause they have their own political ideology, but I… assure you, I am not on one side or the other. I’m just telling you the fucking truth.

Brie Evantee: I think this would be a good time to establish that Isherwell and the president have both said that there’s benefits to be…

Dr. Randall Mindy: Right, well, the president of the United States is fucking lying! Look I’m just like all of you. I hope to God, I hope to God that this president knows what she’s doing. I hope she’s got us all taken care of, but the truth is, I think, this whole administration, has completely lost their fucking mind! And I think we’re all gonna die! Look, I just wanna go home. I just wanna go home more than anything. But if there is one thing, one thing that I pray… that I pray that all of you hear from what I have just said, is that all of us, all of us…