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
- C19 lines
Most people's lives...
On Debris and DesperationSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959She reduces ordinary lives to litter, then lands on a borrowed phrase that flatters her own. - C16 lines
All we were to them was a bunch of hicks.
Not a hickSLC Punk · 1998He turns an insult into a checklist of boots, horses, and blood, then rejects the label. - B27 lines
When I started at work, we'd all socialise together.
Ken on being left behindAnother Year · 2010He moves from shared Friday nights to travelling alone, and the slide does the work. - B26 lines
Goddamn, I'm really glad to see you, Jimmy.
The boss remembers JimmyThe Last Boy Scout · 1991He sounds nostalgic while quietly reopening every wound in Jimmy's career. - B18 lines
Well, I know it's not Buckingham Palace, but it's home to me.
CC's freedom speechBeaches · 1988The speech slides from a joke into joy and lands on a shout of freedom. - B18 lines
Hello, my royal subjects!
King Candy's race announcementWreck-It Ralph · 2012Hail, wipe, roster, then the coin. Ceremony that turns into a cover charge. - B26 lines
You'll pay every cent just like anybody else.
The collector's warningYou Can't Take It with You · 1938He piles warning on warning, and the harder he pushes the funnier he looks to the room. - B26 lines
I don't really know.
Lucy recalls her courtshipThe Ghost and Mrs. Muir · 1947She tells her marriage as a girl who mistook a novel's ending for real life. - C19 lines
Let me ask you a question. What do you call a guy...
Dino's speech on ratsThe Town · 2010A chain of questions builds to a verdict, insulting with real structure. - B27 lines
Oh, that puts me in mind of a great wee system we had in the old days for paying the rent.
The rent schemeBelfast · 2021He tells a story about a street robbing its own rent man as if it were civic duty. - B17 lines
I pull the Adventurer over whenever I feel like stretching my legs...
Roadside monologueAbout Schmidt · 2002The travelogue suddenly lands on Helen, turning a souvenir list into grief. - B19 lines
Your mum told me straight, you know.
Tony's football fearBeautiful Thing · 1996He admits a boyhood fear in broken, honest sentences that feel real. - B17 lines
We say nothing.
Dad's gag orderEncanto · 2021He starts at we say nothing, then edits the break-in out of the night like copy for guests. - C18 lines
And so into this little tortured mind...
Hildy's story read aloudHis Girl Friday · 1940She turns Earl's motive into an elegy, and the calm sentences carry the irony. - B29 lines
Let me understand this.
Tommy's mock cross-examinationGoodFellas · 1990Short questions and pauses turn a joke into a suffocating interrogation. - B26 lines
This is the Zodiac speaking.
The Zodiac speakingZodiac · 2007He scolds the park search in a host's voice, then writes children as targets. - C16 lines
A claims man is a doctor and a bloodhound and a cop and a judge and a jury...
the claims man speechDouble Indemnity · 1944One title after another piles up until a desk job sounds like a courtroom, and the rhythm does the selling. - B29 lines
I look for John Proctor
Abigail's OutburstThe Crucible · 2014She builds from a single claim to a full accusation, letting every sentence carry more heat. - B26 lines
We began with five Golden Tickets.
The first-ticket news reportWilly Wonka & the Chocolate Factory · 1971It builds suspense with a lightning metaphor, then drops the answer onto one small town. - B27 lines
Everything I've been doing has just been a cry for help.
the cry for help confessionThis Is the End · 2013It slides from accusation into self-mockery, mixing tears with a crude joke. - B26 lines
Well, if they do,
How stars dieOppenheimer · 2023He turns collapse and swallowed light into a black hole, then admits the work cannot save anyone in the room. - B28 lines
You know last I remember you were quite a timid little thing
Childhood as interrogationEnola Holmes · 2020The pine cone and the chasing father sound fond until you notice he is cataloguing a sister he has not visited. - B29 lines
She's terrific. She's warm, and she's nice.
Jack’s defenseHusbands and Wives · 1992Warmth, breath, then ashtrays: he inventories a marriage like a room he could not sit in. - B27 lines
Can I just explain myself? I didn't want Nikki to think that I was associated
Tiffany's outburstSilver Linings Playbook · 2012It builds from self-justification to accusation, landing one final verdict on Pat.