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
You told me
Hold on, let go, then the giftSigned, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made · 2021The old lesson becomes the present: what he was meant to release, someone else kept. - B24 lines
And actually do some work besides swiping my fucking credit card all day, huh?
Naomi's sarcasmThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013Her sarcasm stacks up, dismantling each of his invented professions in turn. - B23 lines
You knew because there is the slightest,
A good nurseKnives Out · 2019He explains the save as repetition, then lets the compliment sit. - B25 lines
Come, now, Mr. Creedy, you knew this was coming.
V's pitch to CreedyV for Vendetta · 2006It sounds like friendly reasoning while quietly closing every door. - B25 lines
See, I felt married to her.
It was all for herThe Great Gatsby · 2013The short landing: house, parties, motive. Only her left. - B24 lines
You know, I got the audition sides across my fax machine,
Janice came in on a faxFriends: The Reunion · 2021From faxed sides to she lives in me: the part as something already inside her. - B24 lines
Let me tell you something, Mr. Winklevoss, Mr. Winklevoss,
The president's closing lectureThe Social Network · 2010He says the surname twice, then tells them this complaint is beneath Harvard. - B24 lines
I want to continue this life with seeing my children grow up.
If I don't make itBe Here Now · 2015He accepts the worst ending first, then quietly entrusts his family to Vashti. - B24 lines
Just in the last few days, really. You know, it was pretty bad last week.
Porter on SidneyDeathtrap · 1982He lists the crying, the drinking and the recovery calmly, care mixed with a lawyer's watching eye. - B24 lines
Star light, star bright,
Jack recites the star rhymePuss in Boots: The Last Wish · 2022The nursery couplet never finishes, so greed is caught mid-spell. - B24 lines
Listen, that fellow Bensinger is on his way right now.
Walter's schemeHis Girl Friday · 1940He flatters and then discards a rival in a few brisk orders, and the coldness is funny. - B24 lines
What am I doing in this relationship anyway? My phone never stops ringing.
Mary's late-night reckoningManhattan · 1979She moves from boast to self-doubt and ends the speech with a gesture, not a word. - B24 lines
I never had no wife that be so taken with and I thought to find the cause of it, d’y’see,
Corey on His WifeThe Crucible · 2014He slides from explaining his wife to admitting he cut off all goodwill with her. - B25 lines
So, listen, I'm sorry that I didn't come see you down at the hospital.
Jake's apology and good newsSilver Linings Playbook · 2012A string of apologies that keeps curving into bragging, showing how blind he is. - B24 lines
The question of Rearden Metal being good or not is irrelevant.
Stadler's double bindAtlas Shrugged: Part I · 2011Four lines close a trap: good is a danger, bad is a danger, so it must go either way. - B24 lines
If this got out
Barbie in Los Angeles, if this got outBarbie · 2023Leak, life-size, walking the streets: each clause makes the disaster bigger. - B24 lines
five years ago, when I started Stratton Oakmont with Donnie Azoff, I knew the day
the farewell openingThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013It sets up a gracious exit only so the reversal lands harder moments later. - B24 lines
There is a face beneath this mask...
The speech beneath the maskV for Vendetta · 2006It peels identity down past face and bone, refusing to be reduced to a body. - B24 lines
You seek me out.
The soul calls like a foghornFriends: The Reunion · 2021She rapid-fires a duck into destiny, and the foghorn simile pins it. - B24 lines
What the VCs want is to say,
The CEO dareThe Social Network · 2010He does the VC voice, then stamps the swear on the card. - B24 lines
Victor lives just long enough to tell the truth about himself and Julian...
The play's closing beatsDeathtrap · 1982Truth, a suicide and a curtain fall in a few tight beats, like pages turning. - B24 lines
But I did, Mama.
Goldi says just rightPuss in Boots: The Last Wish · 2022She denies the leftover wish, then files the bears under a fairy-tale punchline. - B24 lines
This guy's been married 12 years. What do you think will happen?
Isaac's prediction speechManhattan · 1979He dismantles the affair in four flat sentences, each one more certain than the last. - B25 lines
I tell you straight, Mister - I have seen marvels in this court.
Proctor on What He Has SeenThe Crucible · 2014He moves from plain speech to what he has witnessed, slowly exposing the whole trial.