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
- C113 lines
In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran...
V's alliterative introductionV for Vendetta · 2006A long cascade of V-words that is at once solemn and absurd, and impossible to forget. - C130 lines
I'm sorry, but not everything needs to sound so goddamn clever or charming or likeable all the time.
Randall's on-air meltdownDon't Look Up · 2021It builds from a complaint about niceness to human extinction, and breaks off into a plea. - C120 lines
Now, from the beginning...
Keys on why Guy wokeFree Guy · 2021He walks from the loop to the girl of his dreams, then hands the whole confession to Millie. - C111 lines
But, yeah, I was spying on her.
David invents how they metWe're the Millers · 2013The Converse and the spying are too specific to feel made up, which is why the neighbors buy it. - C123 lines
Poor Fran.
Fran's blackmail chainKnives Out · 2019From a glance at the bag to a note, pity hardens into proof. - C117 lines
I think I know this man better than anyone here.
Juror Nine on the old man12 Angry Men · 1957From a torn jacket to a lifetime of silence, it turns pity into understanding. - C113 lines
I am beginning to question your loyalty to myself and the party.
The leader's ultimatumJojo Rabbit · 2019It builds from polite doubt through swelling rhetoric to a crude order, and the mask slips at the end. - C123 lines
Everybody's running around here wondering when the bombs are gonna fall, and the fact of the matter is that the bombs have already fallen.
The sidewalk sermonSlacker · 1990It builds from diagnosis to threat, mixing big abstractions with raw street anger. - C110 lines
In my younger and more vulnerable years...
Nick's openingThe Great Gatsby · 2013He takes his father's rule, then admits New York emptied him, then names the one man he still cannot write off. - C111 lines
Now, I want you to imagine a character.
Fletcher's film speechThe Gentlemen · 2020He turns an extortion into a film shoot and the listener into his actor. - C113 lines
I stopped the car and sat still... remembering.
The drive that brought him backThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943Lost on an old road, he remembers the lake and lets the memory decide his return. - C111 lines
I grew up in a family...
The FBI fatherThe Thin Blue Line · 1988Family teaching gives way to a night in Chicago, softening the whole testimony. - C110 lines
Play it cool!
Orders to play it coolNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022She talks herself from thrill down to a fake stumble, so he will relax and talk too much. - C121 lines
I do much wonder
Benedick lists his conditionsMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993He mocks lovers, then lists impossible conditions, and the final clause quietly admits he is not immune. - C117 lines
When you're a poor kid from a poor family, religion counts for a lot.
Saviano's testimonySpotlight · 2015He starts with a poor kid who needs the church, then walks the room to the line where you cannot say no to God. - C113 lines
Yes, you're performing muscular movements with your hand as you're jerking off.
The pleasure analogyThe End of the Tour · 2015He builds an argument out of the body and the dinner table, so the abstract claim lands as a joke. - C113 lines
To faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel will a amend.
The fool's syllogismTwelfth Night · 2012He builds a mock-syllogism so tidy it seems to prove the lady herself the fool. - C117 lines
Because I earned it!
Ten years bought the rightSwimming with Sharks · 1994Earn, take, make: success gets recast as something you are owed. - C116 lines
Well, it was my freshman year at Princeton.
Junior's sob storySome Like It Hot · 1959A ridiculous accident turns heartbreak comic and sad at once, tightening beat by beat. - C110 lines
All that winter, we spread out across the country gathering evidence for Parliament.
The winter of evidenceAmazing Grace · 2006A whole season of work becomes a few plain numbers, then closes on a deadline. - C111 lines
And I honestly cannot think...
Sidney's calm confessionDeathtrap · 1982It drifts from celebrity gossip to his own fortune and then to murder, calm all the way. - C124 lines
My lord, members of the jury,
Sir Wilfrid's address to the juryWitness for the Prosecution · 1957He concedes everything, then narrows the whole case to one witness and holds the room. - C119 lines
You two are divorced, so love failed.
Four-point parental takedownSLC Punk · 1998The points get meaner in order, turning rebellion, love, and politics back on the people who offered them. - C116 lines
Now, get this, you double-crossing chimpanzee.
Hildy's phone tiradeHis Girl Friday · 1940From insult to vow, the tirade covers quitting, cutting off Walter, and starting over.