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
- B211 lines
OK... for me...
the list that makes life worth livingManhattan · 1979The list moves from comedy to art to a girl's face, and the smallest item hits hardest. - B216 lines
Dear Editor,
The letter claims the killings and wants page oneZodiac · 2007From Dear Editor to ammo brands, each line ropes the paper into the crime. - B222 lines
So I let her have it straight between the eyes.
Neff's rainy-night confessionDouble Indemnity · 1944The voiceover moves from a clean exit to a quiet admission that he never left. - B216 lines
Look you.
Abigail's ThreatThe Crucible · 2014Five short beats move from a shared story to an open threat, each one louder than the last. - B213 lines
I'd like to pray to You for a second.
Jonah's prayerThis Is the End · 2013It prays in dead-serious church cadence for a friend's death, absurd and venomous at once. - B211 lines
Well, this glass,
Quantum from a glassOppenheimer · 2023Glass to body: the science metaphor lands as a move closer. - B228 lines
Welcome.
The headmistress’s finishing speechEnola Holmes · 2020Commands, drills, and marriage get sold in the same sweet register until the lock on the door makes the deal plain. - B211 lines
It's me. You're living with her, aren't you? You've moved in together.
The cohabitation callHusbands and Wives · 1992Each line tightens the charge that Jack planned this. The swearing keeps time. - B218 lines
I come home from work after I left early, which I never do,
the shower confessionSilver Linings Playbook · 2012It walks step by step from the door to the curtain, each short line cutting deeper. - B211 lines
My name is Clementine Kruczynski.
Clementine's erasure tapeEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · 2004Her own recorded cruelty makes the romance sound like a wound she chose. - B213 lines
You know, this house is roomy and cool. You see how cool it is.
The host's wild pitchLolita · 1962He escalates from offering rooms to offering executions, burying his fear in a torrent of sales talk. - B212 lines
A few rules.
The briefing rulesBreach · 2007The rules arrive as a calm list, and each one tightens her control over him. - B214 lines
So everything I got has moved on, and I'm here.
Rocky writes himself offCreed · 2015The empty house, the family he will not claim, the why bother: he talks himself out of surviving. - B216 lines
You see, my parents, they were attacked by hillbillies just like him.
Chad's family storyTucker and Dale vs. Evil · 2010It builds a martyr legend step by step, ending with the blame aimed straight at Dale. - B210 lines
Spielberg: I really wanted my childhood to be sort of the pie-in-the-sky, Norman Rockwell American Dream.
the home he wantedSpielberg · 2017He fills in the magazine family first, then lets the cracks show. - B210 lines
I'm gonna take a leave from Taggart Transcontinental.
Dagny lays out her takeoverAtlas Shrugged: Part I · 2011She lists her terms in order, never letting her brother's interruptions break the rhythm. - B231 lines
I will go ahead. Thanks a lot. Guess I have the floor now.
Uncle Marty's drunk-driving storyGood Will Hunting · 1997It builds to an absurd twist, the wrong car, and lands it without a pause. - B242 lines
I was sleeping in their bed the night they went out.
Adam's account of the crashAll of Us Strangers · 2023The pauses and plain words carry years of held-back grief. - B211 lines
So we were at dinner however many years ago.
The wrong card storyBad Education · 2019He narrates his own slide in a flat voice, and the small sums do the damage. - B210 lines
First, Miss Long, thank you for your help at the office and for passing this on to Jerry.
The thank-you speech on tapeThe King of Comedy · 1982The stiff, grateful phrasing rings against the emptiness of the room where he records it. - B212 lines
I'm sitting here driving.
Carl's driving rantFargo · 1996It builds from complaint to sulking threat, and the silence he chooses is the punchline. - B223 lines
Listen, I'm not taking any more chances.
the order to shut it all downUnited 93 · 2006From refusing more risks to declaring war on someone, the speech turns an emergency into a turning point. - B214 lines
Yes, Barbie changed everything.
Barbie rewrites the history reelBarbie · 2023It sells a finished revolution, then admits the paradise is a bubble. - B212 lines
Sally, for chrissakes, don't tell them I came to your place.
Clawson's pleading callAll the President's Men · 1976It slides from pleading to listing his family, showing what he is really afraid of losing.