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
- B25 lines
Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever?
Lime's dots argumentThe Third Man · 1949He prices human lives like dots on a ledger, and the calm is the horror. - B15 lines
It's a class. I go to the hot kind, where they heat the room.
Walter on hot yogaThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty · 2013His voice warms as he explains how sweat carries fear away, a rare moment of enthusiasm. - B15 lines
Whatever happened to that girl...
Where did that girl goAmerican Beauty · 1999Five short questions build a eulogy for the woman Carolyn used to be, aimed straight at her. - B15 lines
Don't you get it? Don't any of you get it?
Guy yells the city is fakeFree Guy · 2021He stacks fake on fake until the street looks like a set, and the NPC cadence is still stuck in his throat. - B24 lines
I don't… I don't understand.
Kate's breaking questionDon't Look Up · 2021It climbs from stutter to shout, turning helplessness into an accusation. - B25 lines
But that's why you accelerate and way of the big semi to come at us, which should be in about 25 seconds, I figure.
The afterlife argumentInterstate 60 · 2002He builds from a truck to the afterlife in one breath, trapping Neal in his logic. - B15 lines
So it seems to me like you're never gonna behave yourself
Woody sings himself outToy Story 4 · 2019The lullaby turns into a complaint: you won't listen, so tomorrow save yourself. - B13 lines
I'm from Bismarck, North Dakota,
Bruce rewrites his hometownUncle Frank · 2020He lies first, then dresses it as self-invention, and Beth cuts the costume in half a line. - B24 lines
Forbes made me a superstar.
Fame brings a stampedeThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013One detail about suits sums up the absurd rush of fame and money. - 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. - B25 lines
Before you go further, let me remind you things were very chaotic back then.
The major's brush-offV for Vendetta · 2006Five sentences of polite obstruction that reveal more the harder they try to close the subject. - B25 lines
I mean, if you ever wanna kiss a girl or ask her to go out, or I mean...
David's count to threeWe're the Millers · 2013He starts at dating and ends at every fear, selling a junk tip like life advice. - B14 lines
Tell that to my sisters, my brothers, my real mom.
Brightbill settles the nameThe Wild Robot · 2024He lists sisters, brothers, a real mom, then asks what he is. The anger narrows instead of shouting. - 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. - B24 lines
You sit here, vote guilty like the rest of us...
Juror Ten's bitter rant12 Angry Men · 1957A rapid sneer that dumps prejudice and anger in one breath. - B14 lines
What are you doin' in that extra beat? Balancing your checkbook? Come on, man.
coach's sideline scoldingAmerican Underdog · 2021Four clipped orders in a row show a coach too impatient to explain twice. - B24 lines
I know, the new places down on the strip, now, those places are supposed to be it.
Trent's old-school pitchSwingers · 1996He dismisses the new strip in one breath and crowns the old place as home. - B24 lines
It's taken my entire life...
giving up on mankindSlacker · 1990He widens his disappointment from a lifetime to all of mankind. - B24 lines
Oh, Henry's much more pragmatic.
How she talks about HenryDownton Abbey: A New Era · 2022Pragmatic, endurance, workmate: she turns romance into the day’s work and still leaves a door ajar. - B25 lines
Break free.
Elsa's ancestry speechJojo Rabbit · 2019She answers racist hierarchy with mythic ancestry, building to a perfect put-down. - B25 lines
We'll let the niggers, kikes, and spics grab for the pie.
counting on violenceAmerican History X · 1998A calm speech about profit and killing that chills precisely because it stays level. - A21 lines
Air! (INHALES DEEPLY)
Everything good upstairsLuca · 2021A junk-shop commercial: gasp, reverse, then sell the sun. - B24 lines
Think of it... those two women struggling on the cliff.
The cliff speculationThe Uninvited · 1944It paints the struggle on the cliff, then withdraws into a whisper of a hint. - 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.