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
- B210 lines
As a matter of fact, it's cost my family quite a bit of money.
Osgood on his marriagesSome Like It Hot · 1959Each line drops another absurd detail as if it were the most ordinary thing. - B115 lines
We're in the warehouse. Look where we are.
White's calm-down loopReservoir Dogs · 1992He repeats one simple scene over and over, using routine to hold panic at bay. - 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. - B110 lines
I came out of the second lot of chemo.
Andy's treatment planBe Here Now · 2015He walks his family through each medical step without a note of self-pity. - 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. - B114 lines
Hello? Hello. It's me again.
Hannah on holdCome from Away · 2021Messages, busy signals, I should be there: she nails herself to the phone. - C129 lines
My beloved Max, an extraordinary thing has happened.
Reading Christine's letter to MaxWitness for the Prosecution · 1957The letter unfolds motive, scheme and desire in one long breath, read aloud to the jury. - 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. - B219 lines
At the ball...
The night of the ballSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959From a lost coat check to a cry in the dark, short lines make the memory replay live. - B222 lines
My mother told us to buckle up because things were going to get bumpy...
A crash told coldSLC Punk · 1998Every soft line is followed by a harder image, and the lie is what he wants heard. - B223 lines
Football is a dying beast, Joe.
Marcone on football's declineThe Last Boy Scout · 1991It moves from one metaphor to decline, a betting bill and a bribe list, calm and chilling. - B115 lines
Well, back when the arcade first opened,
Felix tells the Turbo originWreck-It Ralph · 2012Arcade rise, stolen crowd, hijack, dual shutdown: the warning arrives in the order a kid would remember it. - B222 lines
You know something.
Ramsey's warningYou Can't Take It with You · 1938It builds from his own ruin to Kirby's fate and breaks off mid-sentence. - B212 lines
To this day my father will tell you he helped me make them posters, but he didn't.
The story of his motherThe Town · 2010He tells the worst memory calmly, forgiving everyone in it, including himself. - B112 lines
You and me, we've known each other since we were toddlers.
The mother's pleaBelfast · 2021She builds from shared childhood to the whole street, then turns it into a question he cannot answer. - B225 lines
Dear Ndugu.
A letter to NduguAbout Schmidt · 2002He measures his own remaining years like a risk table, and the calm is what hurts. - B117 lines
There you are.
Abuela's ceremony speechEncanto · 2021Fifty years of the candle, compressed into one rule: the Gift is for serving. - B210 lines
Karen finally got her mother to put her house up for my bail and I was out.
Henry's plan after bailGoodFellas · 1990Every calm step of the plan is really another move to stay alive. - C115 lines
So I shall change my way of collecting slaves.
New rules, then the blue pigsZodiac · 2007He writes murder as office hours, then baby-talks the cops about buses and booboos. - B216 lines
Nothing had slipped, nothing had been overlooked.
Neff's confessionDouble Indemnity · 1944He boasts of a flawless plan and then admits, line by line, that he is coming apart. - B213 lines
Now hear me, and beguile yourselves no more.
Danforth refuses to postponeThe Crucible · 2014It seizes the floor, then builds a wall of law without yielding an inch. - C111 lines
To talk about after.
Bohr's warning about afterOppenheimer · 2023From the power they are about to reveal to a new world, he recasts the bomb-maker as Prometheus. - C110 lines
See, I've always had, um, this penchant for what I call kamikaze women, because they...
The kamikaze theoryHusbands and Wives · 1992He coins the label, then sells every failed love as an aesthetic choice. - B211 lines
The Birds lose, I lose a fucking fortune. A fortune to Randy.
Pat Sr.'s losing rantSilver Linings Playbook · 2012The betting slang and raw swearing make his collapse feel immediate and ugly.