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
- C18 lines
Dimitri, look, if this report is true...
Muffley soothes DimitriDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964He keeps explaining, reassuring and bargaining, all in one breath. - C18 lines
I know, I know. Sounds bad, right? But some of them...
Rattling the policeNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022She admits the pleasure, then stacks irritation, mistakes, and ruined testimony into one method. - C17 lines
It's time, Robby. It's time!
Mike blowsSpotlight · 2015He stacks now, the kids, the scumbags, the pope—each beat hotter than the last. - C18 lines
Why, man, he's a very devil.
Andrew's cowardly boastTwelfth Night · 2012He builds his rival into a monster line by line, and the bragging is what gives his fear away. - C17 lines
After the truth about Fuchs came out,
The surveillance tightensOppenheimer · 2023Bugs, tails, trash — then the line that fame was never armor. - C17 lines
and now today is the day.
A plea from this seatNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022She counts her years, asks the law to prove justice, then says it looks different from the seat she is in. - C19 lines
Virtually everyone in the street,
Reading the blastOppenheimer · 2023Burns, then luck, then death locked to the flash. - C19 lines
I was led into an interview room.
The spectator sits downNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022She walks from feet-up spectatorship into a room so cold she cannot even ask for a woman officer. - C18 lines
A shabby little room, far from the limelight.
Strauss writes the procedureOppenheimer · 2023From the shabby room to the appeal, he scripts a killing as a renewal. - C18 lines
'It might not come up with much because I...
She drafts his defenceNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022The speech accelerates from a shower to the defence he has not spoken, and she is the one writing it. - C16 lines
Why go through all this against a man
Mermaids?Oppenheimer · 2023Resume, A-bomb, Super bomb, then a fairy tale that ends the hunger. - C19 lines
No, my life is in the hands of the police, the CPS, the court system.
From no control to yesNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022It climbs from institutions and fear to the girl she might lose, then lands on yes. - C18 lines
the purpose of this letter is to state my opinion
Borden reads the letter to HooverOppenheimer · 2023He stacks probability until a scientist is written as a Soviet agent. - C19 lines
'You fucked a guy on a sofa in work.'
The self-blame stackNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022The charges tighten from the sofa to pity, the lawyer and consent, all aimed at herself. - C17 lines
The Oppenheimer matter was
Hill names the feudOppenheimer · 2023From animus to the isotope humiliation, then to a personnel system built to break a man. - C18 lines
He won't admit what he did, but I know he knows.
The one on trialNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022Denial, friendly letters, and the role reversal stack until she is the one the court will test. - C19 lines
'Mr Julian Brookes' QC here will at some stage tell you the jury
What she has lostNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022The repeated I have lost turns the cross-examination into a ledger, and the last item is the system itself.