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
- B17 lines
I feel so torn in so many different ways
Torn Between EveryoneBe Here Now · 2015One breath names her split duties, then lands on a simple hope that help is coming. - B27 lines
Darling, you're a writer. All writers go through periods like this.
Myra's sales pitchDeathtrap · 1982She builds a staircase of reasons, each step making the call seem inevitable. - B19 lines
There was this sailor who was stationed in the South Pacific,
Beulah's sailor jokeCome from Away · 2021Clumsy setup, dirty punchline, filling the minute she cannot actually help. - B26 lines
That woman's up to something. But what?
the lawyer's desperate tallyWitness for the Prosecution · 1957A few short lines carry the case from suspicion to total defeat in one breath. - B27 lines
Whenever I've let my guard down,
Kitty's no-trust speechPuss in Boots: The Last Wish · 2022She walks from dropped guards to a poker table and nails trust shut, line by line. - C19 lines
It all started last summer.
From Cable to St. Mary'sSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959She turns a family collapse into a tidy chronology, and the calm is the cruelest part. - C17 lines
It was a character flaw, sure, but we all have those.
Chaos, lightly dismissedSLC Punk · 1998It first calls showing off a shared flaw and sets that part aside, then folds intimidation, snapping, and theft into Chaos in man, and only then calls it a little tiresome. - B28 lines
It keeps making funny noises.
Mary's catalogue of car woesAnother Year · 2010She piles one car disaster on another until the complaint becomes comic. - B28 lines
I didn't want you on this picture. You're trouble.
The director's tiradeBeaches · 1988It moves from her face to her talent and ends on an order, grinding her down. - C19 lines
Well, this guy and I had this idea.
The Engine in Green GrassYou Can't Take It with You · 1938It starts as a silly college idea and swells into a dream of powering the world from sunlight. - B28 lines
It wasn't merely to save the house for me.
The captain explains his bookThe Ghost and Mrs. Muir · 1947He moves from saving the house to shaming the landsmen, and the anger keeps climbing. - B29 lines
There was this guy there going around to all the ladies...
The agent's bar storyThe Town · 2010She turns a bar creep into a joke and then slips herself into the story, which is the interrogation. - B26 lines
Well, you put a pretty good face on things...
Vicki's observationAbout Schmidt · 2002It climbs from compliment to verdict, showing how softness can corner a person. - B18 lines
I was given a miracle.
Abuela's apology at the riverEncanto · 2021Miracle, fear, lost sight, because of me: she unpicks the rules until a person is left. - C18 lines
All right, here's your story. The jailbreak of your dreams.
Hildy dictates the jailbreakHis Girl Friday · 1940She stacks short clauses until the absurd escape becomes a joke told deadpan. - B26 lines
One night, Bobby Vinton sent us champagne. There was nothing like it.
Henry recalls the glory daysGoodFellas · 1990Six calm sentences paint the glamour he lived in, and quietly hide what he missed. - B29 lines
It is a providence,
Proctor's SpeechThe Crucible · 2014He turns ruin into providence and cold wind, building pressure through short, breaking lines. - B16 lines
My dear friends, you are now about to enter the nerve center...
Wonka's room revealWilly Wonka & the Chocolate Factory · 1971He builds mystery, then drops the wonder in one plain line about eating everything. - B17 lines
I'm a fucking idiot. I put myself up.
Seth's reconciliation speechThis Is the End · 2013He confesses fault by fault in rising rhythm, until he names the real wound in the friendship. - C16 lines
Neutrons smash into nucleus,
The atmosphere calculationOppenheimer · 2023He walks from neutrons hitting a nucleus to the end of the world, like reading a formula as doom. - B27 lines
Unlike most well bred ladies, I was never taught to embroider.
What Enola was taughtEnola Holmes · 2020The refrain of I was taught turns embroidery's opposite into a reason to drive back. - B28 lines
How are you in love? Tell me about that.
Pat on his love for NikkiSilver Linings Playbook · 2012The more sincerely he describes the marriage, the more controlling it sounds. - B18 lines
This is the day we met.
Joel's memory of the beachEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · 2004He turns a sweatshirt into a marker of time, tender and already foreshadowing how it ends. - B18 lines
It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year Notice how he emphasizes this word.
A Poe lesson out loudLolita · 1962He performs the poem and dissects it at the same time, turning a lesson into an invitation.