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
- B23 lines
I'm not really stressing about the manpower.
Jack does not miss the menPuss in Boots: The Last Wish · 2022The dead are inventory. The bag matters more than the bodies. - B25 lines
I would like to be a good writer.
The speech before the proposal5 to 7 · 2014He narrows from a writing dream down to one person, each short line tightening the confession. - B24 lines
You were the stranger, the destroyer.
The accusationSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959Short blows stack up until the listener is outsider, destroyer and teacher of cruelty. - B24 lines
Wouldn't it be more of an act of rebellion...
Clothes versus rebellionSLC Punk · 1998Hair dye and punky clothes get stacked, then the whole effort is called petty. - B25 lines
You think you're so fucking cool, don't you?
Milo's threatThe Last Boy Scout · 1991The repetition slows the threat down until it feels like a blade being drawn. - B25 lines
I don't know. I just walked out on my life.
Hillary's runaway confessionBeaches · 1988Short broken sentences gather speed, spilling both her freedom and her guilt. - B24 lines
It's hers. It's never left here. She hasn't either.
Why he never moved outYou Can't Take It with You · 1938A scent and a room carry decades of loyalty, and the calm delivery makes it land. - B24 lines
Me. The story of me life.
The captain names his bookThe Ghost and Mrs. Muir · 1947He decides the subject, the title and the byline in four lines, vanity and charm together. - B25 lines
Things have been different since I met Hildy.
Bruce on HildyHis Girl Friday · 1940He defines Hildy by contrast with everyone else, and the plain delivery makes it sincere. - B25 lines
This guy who lives across the street from me that I've known all my life.
Karen recounts the assaultGoodFellas · 1990Short parallel sentences, one beat each, carry her shock and rising panic. - B25 lines
I'll have to give up my apartment.
The cost of going brokeManhattan · 1979He lists what he must give up, and each item makes the panic funnier and sadder. - B25 lines
That's cute. Say it again. He came here first to ask where Lola was.
Phyllis explains her schemeDouble Indemnity · 1944She narrates manipulation as a tidy procedure, and the calm is what chills. - B25 lines
Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated.
Hale's Exorcism SpeechThe Crucible · 2014The list builds an unseen cosmos, then lands on a vow to crush the Devil. - B25 lines
Because she had indicated a great desire
He builds a reason to goOppenheimer · 2023Desire, treatment, extreme distress: he stacks private need until the visit sounds unavoidable. - B25 lines
Here's a fun fact. You know where the term OK comes from?
The OK storySilver Linings Playbook · 2012A nerdy aside delivered with real delight, showing how Pat tries to charm a room. - B24 lines
I wanted to understand as much as I could about the procedure as possible.
Mary's nervous explanationEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · 2004She keeps correcting herself until the excuse collapses under its own weight. - B25 lines
You see, I'm a strongly emotional woman.
A late-night confessionLolita · 1962It confesses loneliness, asks for touch, and closes on a line she repeats to convince herself. - B25 lines
You release him into that Slaughter Race game,
How Arthur bores a game to deathRalph Breaks the Internet · 2018He recites a user manual that is actually a disaster checklist. - B24 lines
We picked you because of your facility with computers.
Hanssen's rationaleBreach · 2007He stacks reasonable-sounding motives until the real question is buried. - B24 lines
We are working on a bill.
Mouch explains the billAtlas Shrugged: Part I · 2011Four flat lines describe a ruinous bill as routine business, which makes it colder. - B24 lines
My father was an alcoholic. Mean, fuckin' drunk.
Sean's childhood confessionGood Will Hunting · 1997The flat, matter-of-fact delivery makes the remembered violence hit harder than any complaint. - B25 lines
Bob, if...
Why not Wall StreetBad Education · 2019He answers greed with a calling, and the contrast is the whole indictment. - B25 lines
Why do you grow them?
Ouiser's Southern creedSteel Magnolias · 1989It builds a mock code of Southern womanhood and delivers it as unanswerable fact. - B25 lines
Oh, they're just kids.
They're just kidsThe Christmas Chronicles: Part Two · 2020He calls them kids, clocks two or three hundred years, then admits he has been gone for centuries.