Movie monologues, one line at a time
1,969 real monologues from 153 films. Play a line, pause, say it back.
- 1Full speech: hear it once
- 2Shadow: repeat each line
- 3Blind: listen, then reveal
- B215 lines
This is where my father painted my mother's picture.
The studio confessionThe Uninvited · 1944It moves from a portrait to another woman and back to self-mockery, keeping the scandal soft. - B210 lines
Mandrake, do you recall what clemenceau once said about war?
Ripper's monologue on warDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964It glides from a statesman's quote into paranoid fantasy, dead serious the whole way. - B215 lines
Yes, it's true.
The Special talks himself downThe Lego Movie · 2014He strikes his own qualifications one by one until the pep talk is a performance review. - B211 lines
I had been drunk just twice in my life.
Drunk twiceThe Great Gatsby · 2013He keeps a lifetime tally so this party can land as the second drunk. - B213 lines
I always tried very hard, every judge I know of does...
a judge staying neutralThe Thin Blue Line · 1988He lays out the rule of neutrality, then admits the line moved him anyway. - B213 lines
I remember one time I was -- It was middle of the week,
A news chopper finds the leakFriends: The Reunion · 2021He can't name the weekday, but he can still see the exact wet patch on his own roof. - B210 lines
Please, sir, listen.
Harry's pleaNight and the City · 1950He moves from accounting to oath-taking, laying bare a small man's desperation without winning anything. - B211 lines
I realized one thing, in a kind of Christian-coded ethical arena:
Mark's faith confessionAmerican Movie · 1999He argues himself in circles about faith and ambition, half confessing, half defending. - B220 lines
I mean, it's the only time...
Lee's statement before sentencingCan You Ever Forgive Me? · 2018Her sentences break into fragments as she confesses, the rhythm slowly deflating. - B214 lines
It's the only thing that I'd gotten any, like, food pellets from the universe for.
Trapped by his writingThe End of the Tour · 2015He narrates depression and self-destructive coping as comedy, which makes it land harder. - B212 lines
From now on,we are enemies.
Salieri's vowAmadeus · 1984From enemies to as far as I am able, the vow turns jealousy into a holy war. - B227 lines
There's this serial burglar and, uh...
The peanut butter storyTraining Day · 2001The tale grows more absurd until the punchline lands as a cold fact. - B212 lines
And I, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart.
The Christmas thanksThe Shop Around the Corner · 1940Doctors, nurses, home: he promotes the staff before he pays them, and the stammer makes it land. - B212 lines
I would not have burdened you, Miss Dashwood...
Brandon's confessionSense and Sensibility · 1995The broken, halting sentences let the listener feel anger held under a calm voice. - B214 lines
So, here's the basics. Step one, rub the lamp.
Three-wish house rulesAladdin · 2019Steps first, bans second, then a joke invitation he immediately retracts. - B233 lines
He began an affair with the downstairs neighbor...
Elsie's horror storyDeconstructing Harry · 1997She escalates from an affair to cannibalism, turning dinner talk into horror. - B211 lines
The next thing you know, they're borrowing money from you, they're spending it on other dames and betting on horses.
Sugar on sax playersSome Like It Hot · 1959The flat catalogue of betrayals makes her resignation funnier and sadder. - B233 lines
I don't tip because society says I have to.
Pink's no-tip speechReservoir Dogs · 1992He builds a small refusal into a full argument about rules, work and fairness. - B219 lines
I look around, I look around, I see a lot of new faces.
middle children sermonFight Club · 1999The list of missing wars turns into a name for wasted lives. - B211 lines
I just always have felt understood by them.
Amanda on her greyhoundsBlue Jay · 2016Her voice slows as she turns a rescue into a story about being understood. - B210 lines
They'll hire private detectives who'll follow you day and night.
Sean's persecution lectureThe Social Network · 2010Detectives, then invented dirt: he sells getting robbed as the standard script. - B225 lines
I already knew that the next year was going to be kind of tough with treatment and recovery.
Going with the flowBe Here Now · 2015A quiet river metaphor turns resignation into an active, practical choice. - B217 lines
As a matter of fact, I'm free this evening.
Sidney's train invitationDeathtrap · 1982From a lucky free evening to a brown Mercedes, the plan is seamless and quietly sinister. - B214 lines
Sorry to crash the party with your past lives.
Death names himselfPuss in Boots: The Last Wish · 2022He crashes first, then peels off every cover story until only the name is left.