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
- B25 lines
It makes me just wanna pick up whoever...
Wants to throw someone out a windowThe Lego Movie · 2014Polite office talk, then the nearest body is suddenly the target. - B25 lines
India isn't a drawing room. We're out here to do justice and to keep the peace.
Ronny on dutyA Passage to India · 1984He builds duty into sacrifice, showing how colonial logic sounds from inside. - B25 lines
Seven chipmunks twirling on a branch...
The seven rhymeThere's Something About Mary · 1998The pitch slides into nonsense verse, which is where the sales routine peaks. - B24 lines
He gives large parties...
Jordan on big partiesThe Great Gatsby · 2013Four light lines turn a mob into privacy. The flip is the joke, and the diagnosis. - 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. - B25 lines
Everybody's back this year. The Gales. The Hutchisons.
Betty's neighbor roll callThe Way Way Back · 2013She rattles off the whole neighborhood and sets the social rules in one breath. - B25 lines
... Watson, or whatever your name is, you are not in Hyde Park, with an audience of loafers.
The general's lectureThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943It corrects the name, lists the medals and quotes Napoleon, so wounded pride dresses up as authority. - B14 lines
You know, this doesn't define you.
Helen's pep talkArthur the King · 2024Four short pushes in a row turn sympathy into action without a single lecture. - B24 lines
But yet, they labeled it as such.
Adams on being kept in the darkThe Thin Blue Line · 1988Four flat lines move from headlines to isolation, and the calm makes it worse. - 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. - B14 lines
So many -- So many different episodes are like
David indexes the fountain hitsFriends: The Reunion · 2021He rapid-fires guitar, first kiss, umbrella — the set becomes a table of contents. - B24 lines
A woman has a favorite handbag and it always hangs on her bedpost, where she can get at it easily.
Lisa's handbag deductionRear Window · 1954Lisa walks the audience through the clue step by step, turning an object into an argument. - 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. - B24 lines
I'm through with mugs and spivs and dirt!
Harry's big break dreamNight and the City · 1950Each line climbs higher, a rocket of ambition that shows how badly he wants out. - B15 lines
My great grandfather gave it to my great grandmother
The great-grandparents’ marriageThe Proposal · 2009The dress becomes the old fight: tribe, stubbornness, a couple that held. - B25 lines
Bill, traditionally...
The money menAmerican Movie · 1999It sizes up two men by how they handle money, setting up the whole negotiation. - B14 lines
But if you are tempted, make sure you do your homework.
The dealer's warningCan You Ever Forgive Me? · 2018He warns without naming names, letting insider hints do the work. - B24 lines
That a woman conceived me, I thank her.
A bachelor's vowMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993He thanks the woman who bore him, then turns his refusal of marriage into a final, almost religious vow. - B24 lines
I know, but I would like to tell you just like I tell the kids in my classes.
Brad explains his Tourette'sFront of the Class · 2008He turns a frightening condition into something ordinary by comparing it to a sneeze. - B24 lines
I was close with the Evers brothers.
The cardinal's civil-rights storySpotlight · 2015Four beats: closeness, a stand, then being hated. He boasts, and plants the outsider's bruise first. - 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. - B24 lines
Sorry to harp on about this, but that makes him Mr Tonay and I'm just Tony.
the two Tonys24 Hour Party People · 2002He turns a name into a rank and pleads his case like a lawyer. - B25 lines
I just think it's hard to cast that role, you know, to fill it when you know it's gonna be like 30 to 40 years.
On casting a spouseThe End of the Tour · 2015He piles one metaphor on another until the impossibility of marriage sounds almost reasonable. - B24 lines
He...
Salieri's confessionAmadeus · 1984Broken short lines build the idol's weight and the wound it left.