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
- B26 lines
It was a fun night,
They rewrite the joke on tape nightFriends: The Reunion · 2021Fun first, then the method: if the crowd kills it, they put their heads together and beat it live. - B16 lines
I have to go back in there before they get suspicious, but you've got to get out of here, now.
Hartson's pitchBeavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe · 2022He rushes them out, then casts himself as their savior. - 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. - C27 lines
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool.
On playing the foolTwelfth Night · 2012It rises from a compliment to a maxim, so the clown is praised and the wise are warned at once. - B26 lines
What it was, was a 28-year-old person...
On the pink roomThe End of the Tour · 2015He turns a breakdown into a pink room with a drain, calm and chilling. - B28 lines
The first hurdle for the true warrior.
a Nietzschean creedSlacker · 1990He recites Nietzsche, making suffering the only proof of worth. - B27 lines
(Barks) - Every nerve ending, all my senses, blood in my veins, everything I have is screaming, "Take off,
The panic sequenceReservoir Dogs · 1992It builds from nerves and blood to the dog and the officers, driving the inner panic to a peak. - B19 lines
Although my memory is fading, I remember two things very clearly: I'm a great sinner and Christ is a great saviour.
The blind captain's reckoningAmazing Grace · 2006He moves from faith to the twenty thousand names and ends by putting himself lowest. - B29 lines
Let me tell you the difference between Facebook and everybody else.
Mark’s downtime panicThe Social Network · 2010He walks from one downed server to a cascade, and sells his fear as the product’s law. - B28 lines
Hello, lovely folk.
Reading the update emailBe Here Now · 2015It moves from bright weather to chemo to a joke, making a heavy update feel light and warm. - B27 lines
Mr. Anderson, Sidney is simply bursting with creative ideas about your play.
Myra's push for a dealDeathtrap · 1982She piles promise on promise, leaving the young writer no graceful way to refuse. - B26 lines
It's a big room of cats and dogs and chimpanzees.
Bonnie stays with the pregnant apeCome from Away · 2021Animal noise under human panic. The hangar becomes the pressure cooker. - B26 lines
Millions of years ago, dinosaurs fed on leaves of those trees.
The dinosaur metaphorSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959It frames extinction as the fate of the gentle, then turns the point quietly on people. - C17 lines
Technically, it's called viral cardiomyopathy.
the doctor's diagnosisBeaches · 1988The doctor translates jargon into plain words, and the calm delivery makes the news land. - B17 lines
But still I couldn't hurt him. How could I hurt him?
Karen's inner confessionGoodFellas · 1990In a few lines she moves from mercy to jealousy, showing love tangled with possession. - C17 lines
I came into this village
Hale's confession speechThe Crucible · 2014He turns his own failure into a warning, building regret line by line. - C19 lines
Virtually everyone in the street,
Reading the blastOppenheimer · 2023Burns, then luck, then death locked to the flash. - B18 lines
Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Oh, man. I got an idea.
Danny's dance commandsSilver Linings Playbook · 2012Short bursts of commands build a beat that turns the lesson into chaos. - B28 lines
Those notes you found were fragments of a novel that I'm writing.
Humbert's fiction excuseLolita · 1962He hides behind how novelists work, and the longer the excuse runs the guiltier it sounds. - B19 lines
No, wait, listen. We aren't normally car thieves.
Ralph cries his way through the alibiRalph Breaks the Internet · 2018The more he explains, the guiltier the friendship-and-fix-it story sounds. - B27 lines
That I'm a fuckin' orphan? No, you don't wanna hear that. - I didn't know that. I didn't know that.
Will's outburstGood Will Hunting · 1997He flings his childhood wounds at her one by one, using rage to guard what is left of his pride. - B27 lines
Go outside into your yard, onto a roof, onto your sidewalk, and just look up into the sky.
The appeal to look upDon't Look Up · 2021It stacks ordinary places and flat verdicts until a science note becomes a public call. - B17 lines
Hi. I'm not home right now. I'll call you right back.
the answering-machine messageWhen Harry Met Sally... · 1989Listing options A, B and C to a machine shows how alone and stuck he really is. - B27 lines
Hey, everybody, listen up!
The new-issue-day rallyThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013He turns one firing into a speech that fuses fear with pure hype.