Movie monologues, one line at a time
1,967 real monologues from 152 films. Play a line, pause, say it back.
- 1Full speech: hear it once
- 2Shadow: repeat each line
- 3Blind: listen, then reveal
- B217 lines
I just wanted to inform you all reluctantly, that...
Ted's layoff speechThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty · 2013It dresses bad news in courtesy until the politeness itself becomes the threat. - B214 lines
We are told to remember the idea and not the man.
The narrator's openingV for Vendetta · 2006It sets an idea against a mortal man, then quietly turns into longing. - B212 lines
Laius, proud father, speak.
The chorus retells OedipusMighty Aphrodite · 1995Fatherly pride slides, joke by joke, into a therapist's bill. - B27 lines
Hi, yes. Uh, Dr. Mindy.
Mindy's nervous self-introDon't Look Up · 2021His stammering introduction shows a scientist dragged into a spotlight he never wanted. - B25 lines
As usual, it was all about him.
Neal's voice-overInterstate 60 · 2002Short flat lines build the quiet pressure of a father who decides everything. - B14 lines
You know, kids lose their toys every day.
Bo's lost-toy listToy Story 4 · 2019Yard, wrong box, taken away: three ordinary steps that are still forever. - B14 lines
'Cause it's not just zeros and ones, it's hidden messages.
Keys on zeros and onesFree Guy · 2021He walks from binary to authorship, each step a little more in love with himself. - B26 lines
I might understand if Uncle Frank was selfish
Beth sees the snubUncle Frank · 2020She rules out the easy reasons first, then names the public belittling. Quiet, and it still cuts. - B27 lines
Well, as you know, Robert was spending the night in Singapore.
Leslie's account of the nightThe Letter · 1940Flat details pile up until the visitor's arrival feels like a door opening on its own. - B222 lines
My name is Jordan Belfort.
Jordan's self-introductionThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013He lists wealth and crimes in one breath, and the pacing itself sells the high life. - B24 lines
Look at you. No wife, no kids.
Rick's envy speechWe're the Millers · 2013He starts at no family and ends at nobody noticing if you vanish. The toast walks itself into a eulogy. - B16 lines
Hello. Bonjour. - [fanfare playing]
Boot-up self-introThe Wild Robot · 2024Hello stacked on Bonjour stacked on a slogan, polite as a commercial nobody asked for. - B24 lines
We... We had our own secret way of communicating.
Father-daughter codeKnives Out · 2019She sells Harlan’s love as a game you only win by his rules. - B238 lines
Don’t you disrespect me, little man
Facilier’s sales songThe Princess and the Frog · 2009He warns, flatters, and bills you in the same rhyme, until shaking his hand feels like the only next line. - B19 lines
Look, this kid's been kicked around all of his life...
Juror 8 on the boy's life12 Angry Men · 1957He stacks plain facts about the boy's life and lands on a simple plea for a few words. - B28 lines
We're not federal.
The cash-truck pitchWrath of Man · 2021He strips the badge, then prices the danger as a perk. - B28 lines
What is my ambition against that?
Mireau's soldier's creedPaths of Glory · 1957Two rhetorical questions put his career next to his men's lives and settle the scale. - B29 lines
Over a million athletes play high school football every year in America.
the impossible dream voiceoverAmerican Underdog · 2021It piles up the odds against one dream, then names it impossible without quite giving up. - B15 lines
See, Mike, the only difference between giving up and not giving up...
Rob's let-go logicSwingers · 1996He builds the paradox step by step until the joke turns into a truth. - B27 lines
So a little about me. Who am I?
the captain's self-introductionJojo Rabbit · 2019Self-pity and swagger trade places, so a demotion comes out as a comedy routine. - B264 lines
Man, I just had the weirdest dream back on the bus there.
a monologue on parallel realitiesSlacker · 1990He builds a whole theory of parallel lives out of a cab ride, then lands it on a punch line about staying put. - C15 lines
Years ago, before you were born,
How the villa arrivedDownton Abbey: A New Era · 2022Sixty years of a transfer told as if it were a joke she almost forgot. - B29 lines
I want you to analyse and interpret all the events...
The principal's ultimatumAmerican History X · 1998He builds pressure clause by clause, then lands on ghost as a quiet, final threat. - A21 lines
When I was a kid,
Grandma's old boatsLuca · 2021She walks boats backward from motors to oars, laughing the years in.