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
- B214 lines
Harold, look what happened.
Charlotte's confessionLolita · 1962She confesses, excuses and then vows to a dead man, sliding from grief into something absurd. - C110 lines
He started spying for the Russians, we think, in 1985.
The traitor's billBreach · 2007It stacks secrets, sums and dead sources into a calm indictment, letting the facts do the shouting. - B113 lines
Well, Reverend, I don't understand that.
Gertrude's defenseAn American Crime · 2007She slides from playing confused to blaming the victim without ever pausing. - C114 lines
I ask you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet...
Sean on love and lossGood Will Hunting · 1997It stacks poetry, hospitals and grief until the boy has nowhere to hide. - C112 lines
I'm sure you can understand, doing the kind of show I'm doing, it's mind-boggling.
A long apology at gunpointThe King of Comedy · 1982He slides from complaint to apology, turning dignity into a performance. - C125 lines
Like we have to always be extraordinary.
Gloria’s rules for womenBarbie · 2023Each You have to stacks, then a but knocks it down. - B111 lines
This is terrific.
Sal's family speechDo the Right Thing · 1989Sal links a new name, his sons, and Mookie into one speech about family and belonging. - B211 lines
And at that precise moment, the door opened...
the reconstructionA Shot in the Dark · 1964Clouseau builds a murder from small physical details, one short step at a time. - B211 lines
While you've been away, we've been back here in serious triage, trying to clean up your fucking mess.
Rez's warningA Star Is Born · 2018It builds from facts to a verdict and closes with a hard line that leaves no room. - B118 lines
As you know, my mother left my dad and me.
The bear and two leavingsSigned, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made · 2021He starts at a museum and walks the story down to a stuffed animal and a mother he could not keep. - B210 lines
There was a time in this business when they had the eyes of the whole wide world.
Norma on the talkiesSunset Boulevard · 1950It builds from the golden age to smashed idols, then lands on pure contempt. - C115 lines
She slept with Leo Brockman, never having been to bed with anyone before but her husband,
the voice-over on her rebirthWhatever Works · 2009A deadpan voice-over walks her fall and rise step by step, and the flatness is the joke. - B114 lines
A man came to me and said...
The old man's matchWhen Harry Met Sally... · 1989Short sentences and pauses make the story sound like real memory, not narration. - B214 lines
This town had serious drug problem.
The official's drug policy speechInterstate 60 · 2002He narrates a social catastrophe in the tone of a business report, and that calm is the horror. - B223 lines
Hello, John, how are you doing today?
The full phone pitchThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013It runs from small talk to closing the trade in one breath, a textbook sales script. - B214 lines
You return,
Blanc walks the crimeKnives Out · 2019Second person, step by step, as cold as a how-to. - B214 lines
We're interrupting your regular program to bring you this terrifying report...
The official news reportV for Vendetta · 2006It drips with heroism and safety while contradicting everything the viewer just saw. - B213 lines
It's always difficult to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this.
Juror Eight on prejudice12 Angry Men · 1957He admits his own bias before naming the standard, which makes the speech hard to dismiss. - B218 lines
That proves that most of us are more afraid of getting hurt than of getting killed.
The soldiers' debate on fearPaths of Glory · 1957It moves from weapons to the nature of fear, turning banter into a rough philosophy. - B113 lines
All my life, I've defined myself through sports.
Kurt's confession speechAmerican Underdog · 2021It walks from a life of scores to a single choice, and lands on her. - B210 lines
Alright. I want you to go over to that girl and I want you to get those digits.
the bad-man pep talkSwingers · 1996Movie ratings become a pep talk, turning warm advice into a playable mission. - B224 lines
The thing is, the media's trying to hold up this whole one-party, two-faction system...
a rant on voting numbersSlacker · 1990He drills 54 percent down to 18, turning arithmetic into an argument that ends by scaring the winners. - B216 lines
In the end, that's all you have.
Rosie's midnight chargeJojo Rabbit · 2019She moves from despair to hope, then boils it down to one plain instruction: keep going. - B212 lines
To confirm the fact that he had issued the go code, and he said, "yes, gentlemen,
Ripper's recorded rantDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964Ripper's calm certainty turns a war order into a prayer, and that is what makes it chilling.