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
- B112 lines
And in the morning, we took him to the hospice.
The butterfly goodbyeBe Here Now · 2015A dying man turns his body into a butterfly so his children can understand goodbye. - B111 lines
Well… you take a taxi to the Goose.
The three-day ferry mapCome from Away · 2021Each transfer stretches the way home until the view is the only consolation. - B110 lines
Sad as it is, Vanellope cannot be allowed to race.
Candy's shutdown chainWreck-It Ralph · 2012If, then, when. He walks a child's race all the way to a dead arcade. - B113 lines
Look, when your mother left...
The father's hard answerThe Town · 2010Not one comforting word, yet it captures both the harshness of that world and the father's helplessness. - B113 lines
This is our home We've got every generation
Family roll call, opening verseEncanto · 2021She maps the house like a sky of stars, then hands the keys to Abuela in the same breath. - B112 lines
Well, that's not what I want!
Friendship is not ownershipRalph Breaks the Internet · 2018He lectures the clone and himself at once, and makes letting go the rule. - B110 lines
Freedom was in jeopardy...
War documentary voiceoverAn American Crime · 2007Short lines stack danger on danger until the war sounds unavoidable and enormous. - B110 lines
You ever wonder what your life would be like if you, uh...
Sean on regretGood Will Hunting · 1997It separates pain from regret and refuses to trade love for comfort. - B111 lines
Today I staked out Frank's place with a camera.
Jeffrey's case reportBlue Velvet · 1986The calm, numbered delivery of grisly leads makes the danger feel real. - B119 lines
Let me tell you the story of right hand, left hand.
the tale of two handsDo the Right Thing · 1989A boxing match between two hands turns an abstract idea into something you can watch. - B113 lines
Dear John,
The mother's letterSigned, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made · 2021She writes I miss you, then leukemia, and leaves the fear in the pause. - B114 lines
She should be here, Kurt.
An elder's quiet pleaAmerican Underdog · 2021She stacks small observations instead of arguments, and ends on one word that lands. - B124 lines
Where in the shit do you think you're going, hmm?
The leader's last appealJojo Rabbit · 2019It moves from threat to bribe to begging, showing the whole machinery of control before a single line ends it. - B113 lines
Oh, man. They're always fighting all the time.
On his parents' marriageAmerican Movie · 1999He moves from old anger to forgiveness and back again, all inside one short speech. - B116 lines
Three days ago, I loathed you.
From loathing to the second proposalThe Proposal · 2009He walks the hate forward sentence by sentence until it has nowhere to go but marry me. - B114 lines
I could simply kill you all.
Jafar's revenge listAladdin · 2019He refuses a quick kill, then raises the punishment to taking the daughter. - B111 lines
I've loved...
Amanda's empty-nest speechBlue Jay · 2016Broken short lines turn her private dread into something the listener overhears. - B112 lines
And I laid down next to him, and we just laid still
The last breath beside himBe Here Now · 2015She records the funny noise, the deep breaths and the stillness without looking away. - B114 lines
Hello? Hello. It's me again.
Hannah on holdCome from Away · 2021Messages, busy signals, I should be there: she nails herself to the phone. - B121 lines
You know, it's funny. loan see your daddies' faces in you.
Fergie on the cathedralThe Town · 2010The speech moves from old fighters to a rigged insider and lands on one building, tightening as it goes. - B117 lines
There you are.
Abuela's ceremony speechEncanto · 2021Fifty years of the candle, compressed into one rule: the Gift is for serving. - B113 lines
Well, Reverend, I don't understand that.
Gertrude's defenseAn American Crime · 2007She slides from playing confused to blaming the victim without ever pausing. - B111 lines
This is terrific.
Sal's family speechDo the Right Thing · 1989Sal links a new name, his sons, and Mookie into one speech about family and belonging. - B118 lines
As you know, my mother left my dad and me.
The bear and two leavingsSigned, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made · 2021He starts at a museum and walks the story down to a stuffed animal and a mother he could not keep.