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
- B215 lines
Yes, this is Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California.
Opening narrationSunset Boulevard · 1950It reveals the ending first and then rewinds, hooking the listener with a dead man's own voice. - B247 lines
Attention. Attention.
Friday's movie trailerM*A*S*H · 1970Piled-on metaphors turn a recruitment-style pitch into quiet anti-war mockery. - C139 lines
Why would you want to hear my story?
Boris's opening monologueWhatever Works · 2009It swings from life philosophy to Heart of Darkness, setting the film's bitter comic tone. - B214 lines
Good evening everyone
Katherine’s chargeThe Menu · 2022She keeps her voice even while listing how the chef made her disappear. The kitchen lesson is the humiliation. - B111 lines
It is these people who brought this upon us.
The sacrifice pitchThe Mist · 2007Each clause tightens the noose from blame to blood. - B212 lines
Laius, proud father, speak.
The chorus retells OedipusMighty Aphrodite · 1995Fatherly pride slides, joke by joke, into a therapist's bill. - B217 lines
I just wanted to inform you all reluctantly, that...
Ted's layoff speechThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty · 2013It dresses bad news in courtesy until the politeness itself becomes the threat. - B241 lines
What I'm about to say may be hard to understand.
Guy wakes the extrasFree Guy · 2021He cushions the hard part, then turns getting robbed and stabbed into a list of reasons to stop watching. - B225 lines
When Joe and I started seeing each other, we wanted exactly the same thing.
Sally's breakup storyWhen Harry Met Sally... · 1989It builds from freedom to a child's sentence, then breaks on a single sob. - B211 lines
The O.W stands for One Wish.
The wish granter explains himselfInterstate 60 · 2002He turns granting wishes into a deadpan business pitch, and it lands. - B230 lines
Number one rule of Wall Street.
The number one ruleThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013He moves from market chaos to client addiction, laying out the firm's whole business creed. - B214 lines
You know, sometimes I think
Harlan on the childrenKnives Out · 2019He admits the money was a leash, then names Ransom as the real knife. - C113 lines
In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran...
V's alliterative introductionV for Vendetta · 2006A long cascade of V-words that is at once solemn and absurd, and impossible to forget. - B215 lines
Come on now, darling. Think of everything you've sacrificed.
Facilier's sales pitchThe Princess and the Frog · 2009Praise, then her father's fatigue, then the easy close. You can hear the trap tighten one courtesy at a time. - B117 lines
Most of you hate me, and I hate most of you.
Fink’s truce pitchThe Wild Robot · 2024He starts from mutual hate, then turns the monster back into a name: Roz. - B210 lines
Can I speak candidly, boss?
Talk the boss off the ledgeWrath of Man · 2021He names the mood, names the body count coming, then locks the inside-job line. - C117 lines
I think I know this man better than anyone here.
Juror Nine on the old man12 Angry Men · 1957From a torn jacket to a lifetime of silence, it turns pity into understanding. - B211 lines
You're tired, Dax. You're very tired.
Mireau's pressure speechPaths of Glory · 1957It dresses a threat as care, wearing Dax down with concern for his men. - B119 lines
I got this call from Brad
Brenda's testimonyAmerican Underdog · 2021She moves from a panic-filled phone call to a boy who keeps beating the odds, holding grief and pride together. - B117 lines
My whole life people have told me I have this star quality.
the actress's childhood storySwingers · 1996Praise turns to insult then back to praise, and the swing makes the story land. - B250 lines
You know about the suppressed transmission, of course?
the moon-landing conspiracy rantSlacker · 1990He builds the whole case in one breath, every wild link delivered like hard evidence. - B210 lines
Well, why don't you come and see for yourself?
The Hollywood butler offerDownton Abbey: A New Era · 2022From come and see to make us both comfortable, he rewrites master and man without raising his voice. - B218 lines
Sheesh. That was intense.
Adolf's running commentaryJojo Rabbit · 2019He turns a deadly standoff into jokes and bad plans, keeping horror and comedy in one frame. - B210 lines
Things have changed since you've been gone.
Cameron's pitchAmerican History X · 1998He builds from change to a single missing piece, making the offer sound inevitable.