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
- B24 lines
No, no. Now let me instruct you.
Hale Sets His TermsThe Crucible · 2014He rejects superstition, insists on evidence, then locks them into accepting a clean result. - B25 lines
If I was pissed at you, I'm sure it would have something to do
Jay's backhanded confessionThis Is the End · 2013It claims calm, then lists every grudge before recasting the disaster as fate. - B24 lines
Enough of this madhouse.
Condon quits on the spotOppenheimer · 2023From madhouse to Generalissimo in four lines. The rage becomes a resignation, not a debate. - B25 lines
Listen to me.
Pat's breakdownSilver Linings Playbook · 2012It starts as a whisper and spills into raw panic, letting his polished front fall apart. - B24 lines
I could die right now, Clem.
Joel's quiet confessionEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · 2004A few plain sentences build to a happiness so complete that dying sounds fine. - B24 lines
But, you know, I adored Harold.
The widow tests remarriageLolita · 1962She moves from grief to desire in four lines and still lets him answer the last one. - B25 lines
Ballet shoes? Ballet classes? Ballet folklorico?
Autofill guessing balletRalph Breaks the Internet · 2018Shoes, classes, folklorico, then a kid's soccer phase: the engine is sure it knows the house. - B25 lines
My wife was the one... Good to see you, Bob.
Hanssen on his wifeBreach · 2007Short consecutive lines turn a hard man soft as he credits his wife for his faith. - B24 lines
Youth killed in robbery attempt.
the obituary read aloudBad Boys · 1983The flat newsread turns a death into a cold, official announcement. - B24 lines
Bring back everything that's ever hurt you.
Rocky loads the old woundsCreed · 2015He stacks the hurt, the blocks, the fists, then cashes it on the promise of the next punch. - B24 lines
What? No, no. Chad...
Allison blocks the planTucker and Dale vs. Evil · 2010She moves from panic to argument in four quick beats, and never gives ground. - B24 lines
You need to have the Rio Norte rerailed with your new metal.
Dagny stakes her businessAtlas Shrugged: Part I · 2011Four lines turn a rail order into a personal all-in bet on his metal. - B24 lines
and how I always regretted not goin' over and talkin' to her.
What Sean does not regretGood Will Hunting · 1997It lists what he gave up and refuses to call any of it a loss. - B24 lines
I am sorry to be the one to tell you this, but no one is keeping anything from you, okay?
Pam's defense speechBad Education · 2019Her stacked reasons and because-clauses turn a deflection into a performance. - B24 lines
Nancy Beth was discovered in a local motel with a high political official.
Clairee's gossipSteel Magnolias · 1989The tale grows bolder line by line and lands on a perfectly nasty image. - B24 lines
The village houses over a million elves.
The output bragThe Christmas Chronicles: Part Two · 2020He stacks every courier and factory on earth, then beats them with one day. - B24 lines
But it's typical. Because that's the way they treat even you.
The kidnapper's pep talkThe King of Comedy · 1982He flatters Jerry by claiming they share the same wounds, pulling him closer. - B24 lines
This makes me emotional, and I’m expressing it.
Feeling is also forceBarbie · 2023She lists being moved as a skill: logic and feeling in the same grip. - B24 lines
I live my own life now, Violet.
Lady Bagshaw stands her groundDownton Abbey · 2019In four calm lines she claims a life of her own after years of duty. - B25 lines
One... she was found with the murder weapon in her hands.
The four factsA Shot in the Dark · 1964He stacks numbered facts like a prosecutor, then hands the verdict to his listener. - B22 lines
But your mom,
Joe covers for MomSigned, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made · 2021He walks from a lifetime of imagining the day down to wanting a share, and calls the crowding love. - B24 lines
That crazy Harriman.
Butch's business logicButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid · 1969He turns a manhunt into a cost sheet, absurd yet perfectly consistent on its own terms. - B25 lines
I wanted the dough, and I wanted to get out of there as quickly as I could.
The editing grindSunset Boulevard · 1950Five voice-over lines move from greed to suffocation, pricing the job he took. - B25 lines
It's a mortal sin. Look, Dago, he is not committing suicide.
Hawkeye's moral loopholeM*A*S*H · 1970He splits intending from doing and hands the chaplain a clean conscience, all in one breath.