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
Gerry, listen to me. Listen. Why is he hiding? Why doesn't he trust anybody?
Sean's defence of WillGood Will Hunting · 1997The questions build until the real diagnosis lands, and Sean refuses to let the pattern repeat. - B224 lines
Do you dream of becoming financially independent but struggle every month just to pay your bills?
The infomercial sales pitchThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013It moves from the viewer's pain to a cure in one breathless sales arc. - C116 lines
I shall die here.
A farewell from the cellV for Vendetta · 2006Death, dignity and love are laid out calmly, which makes the ending land. - B227 lines
You should quit. Quit.
The looping rantSlacker · 1990One order is repeated and twisted until the repetition itself becomes the scene's menace. - B210 lines
We're different.
Born differentThe Great Gatsby · 2013I, they, she — then one sentence that closes the door. - B219 lines
You have a D.A...
A death-row monologueThe Thin Blue Line · 1988Short parallel sentences make the horror sound routine, which is what makes it land. - C112 lines
I run into a QC in the square outside.
The offer she reins inNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022The praise climbs into an offer, then money and a house rule pull it down. - B117 lines
No, no long faces, all right?
The Genie sells the last wishAladdin · 2019He keeps rewriting the pitch, from warrior prince to wiping the law, selling harder each pass. - B213 lines
Listen to me, Evey.
The speech that gives her back her strengthV for Vendetta · 2006Step by step he returns her to the moment she faced death, and the argument lands. - B218 lines
Well, we all know the psychic powers of the televised image...
the image beats realitySlacker · 1990He builds a strange theory from TV powers to a street stabbing, using tape controls as proof. - B210 lines
Listen, she was in the wrong, running out on the road.
Tom talks Daisy downThe Great Gatsby · 2013He blames the woman in the road, then sells leaving town like a weekend. - B212 lines
Dennis filed the motion for a new trial...
The lawyer on the failed motionThe Thin Blue Line · 1988Legal procedure becomes a list of dead ends, and the jargon cannot hide the defeat. - C110 lines
I see me, I see my life, the one I have built, my career.
Witness in her own courtNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022The witness list turns private dread into the shape of a case she refuses. - B243 lines
Our story begins, as these stories often do...
Rookwood's conspiracy storyV for Vendetta · 2006It tells a massacre like a fairy tale, which makes the horror land harder. - B216 lines
it's like I've had a total recalibration of my mind, you know.
the mind recalibratedSlacker · 1990He moves from an old mental wall to quantum physics and ends with a butterfly causing rain. - C110 lines
When the Appellate Court reverses a case...
The judge on how appeals workThe Thin Blue Line · 1988He tallies the votes, then one short line sends the whole argument sideways. - C111 lines
And it occurs to me in this moment, in court, as I am answering this question,
Private cross-examinationNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022She proves he could remember, then uses that proof to show why they will trust her less. - B216 lines
But when I was there, it was strange.
Finch's vision of the patternV for Vendetta · 2006It builds from a feeling to a prediction, and the calm delivery makes it colder. - B222 lines
And then you got the whole other end of the realm where there's like the Smurfs...
the Smurfs as a familySlacker · 1990He turns a children's cartoon into a lecture on bribery, belonging and belief. - B216 lines
I got a call one morning, a lady here in Vidor...
The rolling-pin caseThe Thin Blue Line · 1988From phone call to confession to silence, it traces a loop that keeps repeating. - C111 lines
But then all these questions about Julian's arms, his hands.
The hand-count trapNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022She counts the hands aloud until the only one left in their story is hers. - B210 lines
The reason these guys are being forgotten is they're not Freemasons.
The Freemason RantSlacker · 1990It snowballs from a name list into a full conspiracy, funny because it is played so straight. - B210 lines
Police give you the time of this and the time this happened...
How a timeline gets builtThe Thin Blue Line · 1988He shows how a witness guesses toward the police timeline, exposing how shaky it is. - C136 lines
'Your Honour, I am here in a unique position.
A barrister indicts herselfNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022She steps from counsel to complainant, and each before this knocks the self-blame into a rhythm.