Movie monologues, one line at a time
1,967 real monologues from 152 films. Play a line, pause, say it back.
- 1Full speech: hear it once
- 2Shadow: repeat each line
- 3Blind: listen, then reveal
- C14 lines
I looked you up after we met.
The algorithm's death sentenceDon't Look Up · 2021Four flat sentences tighten from search to sentence, and the calm is what chills. - C14 lines
You think about the people that built this country, hardworking people like you.
Denham's sympathy trapThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013He takes your side against the system, then waits for you to slip. - C15 lines
Okay, let me make one thing clear.
Casey fences off the kissWe're the Millers · 2013She denies the rom-com beat, then says the kiss is something Kenny can take home. - C13 lines
And if you think I am dumb enough
Linda sells her brother out loudKnives Out · 2019She spots the bait, then talks anyway, and Walt's empty shop is on the table. - C14 lines
Once we get past the gates, it's only a question of time before we're compromised.
How long stealth buys themWrath of Man · 2021Gates, time, guards, quiet: each line cashes silence into extra life. - C15 lines
Colonel Dax, you're a disappointment to me.
the idealist speechPaths of Glory · 1957It dismantles Dax's decency piece by piece, ending in pity that is really contempt. - C15 lines
Years ago, before you were born,
How the villa arrivedDownton Abbey: A New Era · 2022Sixty years of a transfer told as if it were a joke she almost forgot. - C14 lines
Putting out a fire in a fucking nigger neighborhood...
Rage over his father's deathAmerican History X · 1998Grief twists into hatred in four clipped lines, and the chill comes from his certainty. - C15 lines
There is an entrance which you enter, and through this entrance, manmade, there is a circular chamber.
Godbole on the cavesA Passage to India · 1984He describes a mysterious place in flat words, and the contrast is the point. - C14 lines
He commissioned me to do a job on Mickey.
Fletcher's confession to DaveThe Gentlemen · 2020He describes spying and character assassination like a routine work report. - C14 lines
All this time I was on probation. Juvenile probation.
Harris on his own confessionThe Thin Blue Line · 1988Four offhand lines cover probation, surrender and confession, and the ease is the point. - C15 lines
Andy, in many ways, was someone we all knew didn't have a strong moral compass.
Narrator lays out the setupEnron: The Smartest Guys in the Room · 2005It judges him, quotes the plan, then recasts his help as a trap. - C15 lines
'Look back and hear this. One of the three of you will not make it.
one-in-three warningNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022Each sentence shrinks the room until classmates are opponents and the game begins. - C15 lines
I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace!
A villain's confessionMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993He moves from a weed image to open threats, turning spite into something like a creed. - C15 lines
Look, I told you guys, these are tough cases.
MacLeish sells the settlementSpotlight · 2015He turns a system that hid priests into a story about how hard the cases were. - C14 lines
Light hits this layer and stores a charged density pattern on it
How the recorder sees lightAuto Focus · 2002He walks light into charge into tape without rushing, so the science still sounds like a boast. - C15 lines
If we had done this by the mail, if I had access to my library, if I could look stuff up...
On rewriting his own quotesThe End of the Tour · 2015Three stacked ifs build to a confession: he is smart only when alone. - C14 lines
Too bad about those two German couriers, wasn't it?
Renault needles RickCasablanca · 1943Renault keeps the tone light while steering straight for Rick's weak spot. - C15 lines
Confine?
Toby on confiningTwelfth Night · 2012He turns the word confine into a rebellion, shedding every rule in a rising, comic rhythm. - C15 lines
Is love a fancy or a feeling?
Marianne on loveSense and Sensibility · 1995She makes love immortal truth, and the recitation reveals her whole temperament. - C15 lines
The man you just killed just got released from prison.
Eddie defends the dead manReservoir Dogs · 1992He stacks four years, a sealed mouth and manhood until loyalty sounds unarguable. - C14 lines
I've spent 18 months being torn apart by you in the House, Mr Wilberforce.
Fox switches sidesAmazing Grace · 2006He turns eighteen months of rivalry into a joke, then seals the switch with a drink. - C14 lines
Okay, you are probably going to be a very successful computer person.
Erica's last wordThe Social Network · 2010She grants him the career, then takes away the excuse: it will be because he is an asshole. - C14 lines
Myra here has just been rattling on for a moment.
Sidney shuts it downDeathtrap · 1982He excuses his wife first, then closes the whole matter in a single cool sentence.