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
- B220 lines
Okay, let's talk like turkeys.
Adolf's reverse-psychology lectureJojo Rabbit · 2019A half-baked scheme gets delivered like a war lecture, and the smugness is the punchline. - B115 lines
It's wrong, and it was eating me up.
Derek's confessionAmerican History X · 1998He moves from confession to warning to love, and the plain words land hardest. - B213 lines
Is anybody here?
Stella in a tranceThe Uninvited · 1944The timid questions tighten into a single name, and the scene turns. - C113 lines
Perhaps you're forgetting the provisions of plan r, sir.
Turgidson explains Plan RDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964He turns a rogue order into proper procedure, and the bureaucracy becomes the nightmare. - 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. - B210 lines
Most wives would beg their other halves to get out of this game, but not you.
Rosalind's exit adviceThe Gentlemen · 2020She moves from smoke-and-fire imagery to a plan for leaving without a scratch. - A210 lines
Come here, buddy.
Michael's goodbye to ArthurArthur the King · 2024He promises and coaxes without a single grand word, which is what breaks you. - C123 lines
Clive, if you let yourself be defeated by them just because you are too fair to hit back the same way they hit at you,
Theo on total warThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943He builds pressure line by line and ends on a match that can never be replayed. - C114 lines
My father would tell me that when Dillinger was killed...
The Dillinger storyThe Thin Blue Line · 1988One vivid detail after another turns an old news story into something absurd. - C116 lines
Today, the prosecutor came second.
The winner's walk outNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022Small gestures pile up until her private ranking flips from second to first. - B211 lines
You are a wonder.
Phil's verdictNight and the City · 1950It praises Harry, lists every door he has closed, then ends with a flat death sentence. - 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. - B221 lines
Thank you all so much for coming out
Margaret's wedding confessionThe Proposal · 2009She starts with the visa panic, then owns the harm, and lets each pause drop another fact on the lawn. - B210 lines
I cannot bid you bid my daughter live. That were impossible.
Leonato's termsMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993He removes the impossible demand and then lays out terms that grief can actually accept. - C110 lines
Three years ago, I get a call from an ex-priest.
The priest is silencedSpotlight · 2015Witness, bishop threat, guilty phone call — a sworn timeline in hallway talk. - 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. - B211 lines
Mozart...
The emperor on FigaroAmadeus · 1984From tolerance to his sister's fear, he turns a ban into statecraft. - B212 lines
And I was mad about her. But I knew it was hopeless and I decided to end it all.
Baxter's story of the kneeThe Apartment · 1960He turns a suicide attempt into comedy, and the deadpan delivery is what finally comforts her. - 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. - B211 lines
...what happened was this bookie got so sick...
the bookie's veiled threatBuffalo '66 · 1998Revenge is told as a chain of causes, and the slower it goes, the closer the threat lands. - 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. - 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. - B212 lines
He's not so bad, Burt.
A sister remembers HarryDeconstructing Harry · 1997A sister's mixed tenderness and grievance, delivered secondhand by the son.