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. - B213 lines
Aah, experience has conditioned you into thinking that all hearts are red, and all spades are black.
Ray's lesson on perceptionInterstate 60 · 2002It moves from a card trick to highways and the brain, making abstraction concrete. - B241 lines
What I'm about to say may be hard to understand.
Guy wakes the extrasFree Guy · 2021He cushions the hard part, then turns getting robbed and stabbed into a list of reasons to stop watching. - B211 lines
Mac Bledsoe was the kind of man
The pastor's eulogyUncle Frank · 2020Stacked duties turn Mac into a finished saint for the whole room. - B233 lines
I got up from that chair there...
Leslie replays the shootingThe Letter · 1940She walks the room step by step until the chambers click empty, and the calm is what chills. - 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. - B216 lines
Let me see here. Once, there was, uh, this island
Fink's origin fairy taleThe Wild Robot · 2024He turns a crash and a blank memory into a star that sent a mother, and keeps the voice soft. - B211 lines
They're not our books, son.
Harlan takes the press backKnives Out · 2019He admits the unfairness, then lifts the job out of his son's hands in the same fond voice. - 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. - B211 lines
The old man lived downstairs under the room where the killing took place.
Juror 4 lists the facts12 Angry Men · 1957He lays the case out in numbered steps, from the old man downstairs to the coroner's time of death. - B213 lines
SINGING I hear the train a comin
The prison-train songWrath of Man · 2021A lullaby about not playing with guns, sung over a man being broken. - B212 lines
I can't understand these armchair officers...
Mireau's creed on soldiersPaths of Glory · 1957It moves from mockery to a creed, each line harder than the last. - B212 lines
I burnt out. I'm not embarrassed to say it.
The comeback speechAmerican Underdog · 2021He turns his own lost years into the reason Kurt should stay. - B214 lines
Look, we're gonna spend half the night driving around the hills looking for this one party...
Mike's party rantSwingers · 1996The rant builds in waves and hides heartbreak inside disgust. - B218 lines
Sheesh. That was intense.
Adolf's running commentaryJojo Rabbit · 2019He turns a deadly standoff into jokes and bad plans, keeping horror and comedy in one frame. - 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. - B212 lines
Well, Bill Benson's about to throw away his life on the tables.
The casino finishDownton Abbey: A New Era · 2022The stammering footman finds a voice and plays ruin into being saved by love. - B246 lines
All right, listen up. We need to open our eyes.
the garage speechAmerican History X · 1998Layered anaphora and a closing question push the crowd to the edge of action. - B211 lines
When I was little...
Stella's childhood dreamThe Uninvited · 1944The small flame that appears and is snuffed out turns safety and fear into a bedtime tale. - B213 lines
Okay. All the people of the universe were once free to travel...
Wyldstyle retells the universeThe Lego Movie · 2014The second briefing is a chain: chaos, walls, stolen weapon, hiding. She sounds bored because the stakes already own her. - B213 lines
He's got a forehead like a drive-in movie theater. He's a good shit...
The Mongo storyThere's Something About Mary · 1998The warmer the story gets, the more it exposes the man telling it. - B211 lines
Listen, Nick, when she was born...
Daisy's fool speechThe Great Gatsby · 2013She folds a whole gender trap into one pretty curse.