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
I arrived...
Metal Beard's tale of the towerThe Lego Movie · 2014The casualty list gets dumber as it goes: laser sharks, then just a head. - B214 lines
High...
Within and withoutThe Great Gatsby · 2013He names the window: inside the mess, still watching it. - C110 lines
I know how you lot love fables, so let me share a little fable with you. 1994
Mickey's dragon fableThe Gentlemen · 2020He tells an execution like a bedtime story, and the calm makes the threat land harder. - B217 lines
When I was a kid, I used to want to be a detective...
the witness who plays detectiveThe Thin Blue Line · 1988Her cheerful nosiness explains why she watched so closely, and why her testimony matters. - C111 lines
Stand outside it, don't take sides.
Due process, stated plainNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022She lines up who the law protects, then calls due process the whole job. - B111 lines
One day I was partying in my basement...
Mike on the vodka nightsAmerican Movie · 1999It starts in loneliness, finds company in Mark, and lands on quiet joy. - B116 lines
Three days ago, I loathed you.
From loathing to the second proposalThe Proposal · 2009He walks the hate forward sentence by sentence until it has nowhere to go but marry me. - C112 lines
I mean in singing, but in loving,
no rhyme for loveMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993He runs through famous lovers only to mock his own clumsy tongue, building a stand-up rhythm. - C112 lines
You know, I went to Providence yesterday
Robby quotes a victimSpotlight · 2015Hockey, family, then collapse—and luck pins every alum in the room. - B114 lines
I tend to do, like, the jerk, the swim.
On dancing at a Baptist churchThe End of the Tour · 2015He makes Baptist disco sound both corny and free. - B211 lines
Had lunch with the wise men today.
The tax speechTraining Day · 2001He justifies a robbery as routine duty, and the calm delivery makes it worse. - B135 lines
I knew her since I was in kindergarten.
Billy's childhood crushBuffalo '66 · 1998The rambling memory exposes both his tenderness and his fixation. - B131 lines
Well, when I first came to work here something very strange happened to me.
The late confessionThe Shop Around the Corner · 1940Memory, mockery, and a shop joke walk her all the way to I fell for you. - B210 lines
(SINGING) Riffraff
He cannot play a princeAladdin · 2019He sings every insult they used, then chooses the truth even if the dream ends. - B214 lines
I'm more powerful than you because I'm a bigger sinner.
A catalogue of sinsDeconstructing Harry · 1997He recites his sins like a resume, proud and damned at the same time. - B213 lines
Tell her I'd like her to have a little supper with me on my yacht, after the show tonight.
Osgood's phone invitationSome Like It Hot · 1959He sweetens the invitation detail by detail until the politeness itself is the joke. - B213 lines
Now the things you gotta remember are the details.
The handler's story lessonReservoir Dogs · 1992Twelve straight lines build a method for lying, from details to relentless repetition. - B113 lines
I've been taking anti-depressants...
Amanda's confessionBlue Jay · 2016Broken short lines build slowly until the hardest admission finally comes out. - B211 lines
From that, I got an American agent and manager and flew to America and a year later I had Spartacus.
Andy on career and illnessBe Here Now · 2015He runs from his biggest win to his deepest uncertainty in one breath. - C117 lines
You stressed it in the seminar, first day.
Clifford explains the conDeathtrap · 1982It sounds like a writing lesson while quietly recapping how the whole con was built. - B214 lines
I lost him.
the Mardi Gras confessionSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959She narrates her own humiliation in short bursts that accelerate from hurt to violence, then stop cold. - C119 lines
Problems and contradictions: I am an anarchist.
The anarchist loopSLC Punk · 1998The listener is led from creed to government and back, and has to sit with the loop. - B110 lines
Sad as it is, Vanellope cannot be allowed to race.
Candy's shutdown chainWreck-It Ralph · 2012If, then, when. He walks a child's race all the way to a dead arcade. - B113 lines
Look, when your mother left...
The father's hard answerThe Town · 2010Not one comforting word, yet it captures both the harshness of that world and the father's helplessness.