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
- C15 lines
Winds blow ships from Africa to the Indies naturally, as if the route were blessed by God.
The defence of the tradeAmazing Grace · 2006He stacks up arguments from wind to fish, dressing profit as providence. - C15 lines
This is the third item.
Porter on the estateDeathtrap · 1982He names a large fortune flatly, and the calm shows how used he is to money and calculation. - C14 lines
It's been a long time since I acted and I never played such a vital role.
Christine's confessionWitness for the Prosecution · 1957She calls the whole deception a performance, and the calm makes the devotion and the cruelty land together. - C15 lines
After all, I've buried a husband and a son. I'm a widow and a...
The Widow's Unnamed GriefSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959She follows language to the edge of a word that does not exist for her. - C14 lines
Make your accusations in the proper manner.
Walter stands his groundHis Girl Friday · 1940Accused and cornered, Walter stays formal and turns the room against his accuser. - C14 lines
I want a mark of confidence, is all!
Parris Claims His RankThe Crucible · 2014He turns fear of dismissal into a claim that his office is above contradiction. - C13 lines
You think that I tell them about your politics.
Lawrence's tap warningOppenheimer · 2023Rearview glass, then static on the phone: surveillance sold as ordinary lab talk. - C15 lines
All my life I had to fight.
A fight in her houseSpielberg · 2017The list of men closes in until the fight is inside her own house. - C14 lines
I didn't want you to think my life had been a fraud, when it hasn't.
Violet on a marriage that was no fraudDownton Abbey: A New Era · 2022She refuses the word fraud, names English enough-happiness, then hands Isobel the scarlet-woman fear. - C15 lines
Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts.
The burial prayerA Passage to India · 1984The old prayer cuts into the trial, making Mrs Moore's death solemn and sudden. - C15 lines
'Is that good?' me mum asks.
No comfort in the womenNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022She answers her mother's hope with a harder question about women not believing women. - C15 lines
We've got two stories here.
Robby's two-story ultimatumSpotlight · 2015He lays both pieces on the table, then forces a pick so there is no third door. - C14 lines
Most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable beauty...
Cesario's rehearsed speechTwelfth Night · 2012He opens with stacked praise, then admits the whole speech is rehearsed and he is nervous. - C14 lines
Would have exactly the same effect on an audience, wouldn't it?
The case to SidneyDeathtrap · 1982A chain of rhetorical questions reframes the killing as a hit show no one can disprove. - C14 lines
As many times as I've had to answer that question...
A Mother Defends Her PoetSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959She turns a simple question into a defence of her son's unknown genius. - C12 lines
We've all heard about Einstein
The Einstein-letter pushbackOppenheimer · 2023He uses a public rumor to name the secret, then lands on his own people in camps. - C15 lines
Say all we done is show the world that democracy isn't chaos.
A defense of messy democracySpielberg · 2017Three rising claims turn a noisy people into a union still worth aspiring toward. - C15 lines
Bar table, bench. Panic. All the barristers are men!
The room is all menNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022The list of roles narrows until the room itself is the accusation, and the heartbeat lands it. - C15 lines
We need to focus on the institution, not the individual priests.
Baron's proof standardSpotlight · 2015Three Show mes turn hunches into a test the institution has to fail. - C14 lines
By innocence I swear and by my youth I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth...
The page's refusalTwelfth Night · 2012Every vow is sincere and every vow hides the same secret, so the refusal is honest and false at once. - C15 lines
That's what I meant when I said his life was his work.
The Poet's Life, Going in CirclesSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959She repeats and reverses until the idea sounds less like logic and more like a prayer. - C14 lines
Conversation ended there.
The hearing rewriteOppenheimer · 2023He first says Chevalier was not fishing, then admits he should have reported it. Flat, careful, and already a file. - C14 lines
I can't listen to this anymore.
The amendment as cureSpielberg · 2017He stops the quarrel, then makes slavery the illness and the amendment the only cure. - C15 lines
'Are you sure you want to go through with this?'
Why she is still hereNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022The question opens a list of costs, and the list answers by refusing to leave.