Movie monologues, one line at a time
1,967 real monologues from 152 films. Play a line, pause, say it back.
- 1Full speech: hear it once
- 2Shadow: repeat each line
- 3Blind: listen, then reveal
- B213 lines
You know, this house is roomy and cool. You see how cool it is.
The host's wild pitchLolita · 1962He escalates from offering rooms to offering executions, burying his fear in a torrent of sales talk. - B111 lines
I know it sounds crazy...
Vanellope admits the track feels like homeRalph Breaks the Internet · 2018She climbs from it felt like home to Ralph wanting the same day forever, and unhooks the shared dream. - B212 lines
A few rules.
The briefing rulesBreach · 2007The rules arrive as a calm list, and each one tightens her control over him. - B110 lines
See what love the father has given us...
A sermon on belongingAn American Crime · 2007It builds from wonder to belonging in short steps, giving everyone in the pew a place. - B119 lines
Welcome to Rainford, gentlemen.
Daniels' orientation speechBad Boys · 1983It moves from a polite welcome to hard rules, each line tightening his grip. - B214 lines
So everything I got has moved on, and I'm here.
Rocky writes himself offCreed · 2015The empty house, the family he will not claim, the why bother: he talks himself out of surviving. - B111 lines
You guys are all a bunch of fucking pussies, you know that?
Chad's no-rules speechTucker and Dale vs. Evil · 2010It climbs from insults to a twisted creed, making madness sound almost coherent. - B210 lines
Spielberg: I really wanted my childhood to be sort of the pie-in-the-sky, Norman Rockwell American Dream.
the home he wantedSpielberg · 2017He fills in the magazine family first, then lets the cracks show. - B210 lines
I'm gonna take a leave from Taggart Transcontinental.
Dagny lays out her takeoverAtlas Shrugged: Part I · 2011She lists her terms in order, never letting her brother's interruptions break the rhythm. - B112 lines
Well, he lived in this tiny hut somewhere in India.
Lambeau on RamanujanGood Will Hunting · 1997The story builds from a hut to Cambridge, and the arc is meant to win Sean over. - B123 lines
I used to plot it all out.
The life they never hadAll of Us Strangers · 2023He narrates the childhood they never had in ordinary detail, and that ordinariness is what breaks your heart. - B211 lines
So we were at dinner however many years ago.
The wrong card storyBad Education · 2019He narrates his own slide in a flat voice, and the small sums do the damage. - B210 lines
First, Miss Long, thank you for your help at the office and for passing this on to Jerry.
The thank-you speech on tapeThe King of Comedy · 1982The stiff, grateful phrasing rings against the emptiness of the room where he records it. - B212 lines
I'm sitting here driving.
Carl's driving rantFargo · 1996It builds from complaint to sulking threat, and the silence he chooses is the punchline. - B223 lines
Listen, I'm not taking any more chances.
the order to shut it all downUnited 93 · 2006From refusing more risks to declaring war on someone, the speech turns an emergency into a turning point. - B112 lines
I had a dream.
The robin dreamBlue Velvet · 1986It builds from darkness to light and lands on a simple, haunting rule. - B214 lines
Yes, Barbie changed everything.
Barbie rewrites the history reelBarbie · 2023It sells a finished revolution, then admits the paradise is a bubble. - B129 lines
Wake up. Wake up, wake up, wake up.
The DJ's opening monologueDo the Right Thing · 1989Rhyme, repetition and rising speed turn a simple wake-up call into a performance. - C116 lines
Okay, so I'm watching TV, like a year ago. All right?
The black-opal sales pitchUncut Gems · 2019Howard stacks TV, mines, numbers, and myth until a rock feels like fate in Kevin's palm. - B212 lines
Sally, for chrissakes, don't tell them I came to your place.
Clawson's pleading callAll the President's Men · 1976It slides from pleading to listing his family, showing what he is really afraid of losing. - B227 lines
For years, I said I was her godmother, but I told her the truth on her 18th birthday.
Bagshaw's confessionDownton Abbey · 2019She tells a scandalous past in the calmest possible voice. - B210 lines
Facts, Hercule, facts.
Clouseau lists his factsA Shot in the Dark · 1964Each item ends on Fact! like a hammer blow, building a comic rhythm. - B219 lines
Thank you to Rez Gavron, my manager.
Ally's acceptance speechA Star Is Born · 2018It moves from thanks to a promise, turning a personal win into a public lift. - B110 lines
She's not even a cup.
Shane upgrades the mother briefSigned, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made · 2021Tea, kettle, beaker, grail, then four days of household wreckage as the punchline.