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
So in come all the paramedics and whatever,
The night the paramedics ended itFriends: The Reunion · 2021EMTs walk in on the one episode where the whole cast is needed, so nothing else can shoot. - 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. - B14 lines
You said it yourself.
Always be secondAladdin · 2019Aladdin uses Jafar's own rule; one word, second, walks him into the lamp. - B24 lines
Victor lives just long enough to tell the truth about himself and Julian...
The play's closing beatsDeathtrap · 1982Truth, a suicide and a curtain fall in a few tight beats, like pages turning. - B25 lines
In my culture, there is a word, awrah.
Ali names awrahCome from Away · 2021He stacks the religious word, the women in the room, and the part of his body that should have stayed unseen. - B24 lines
Well, that's rich coming from you, Baby,
Goldi's stacked roastPuss in Boots: The Last Wish · 2022She tees it up with wait for it, then pins Baby with a whole adjective pile. - B25 lines
I tell you straight, Mister - I have seen marvels in this court.
Proctor on What He Has SeenThe Crucible · 2014He moves from plain speech to what he has witnessed, slowly exposing the whole trial. - B25 lines
You think anyone in Hiroshima or Nagasaki
The president throws the blame backOppenheimer · 2023First the swear about who cares, then Hiroshima isn't about you. - B24 lines
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. - (RONNIE) Pat told me.
Ronnie pleads for PatSilver Linings Playbook · 2012He stacks small claims and pushes until his friend gets one more chance. - B25 lines
So after a short while, no surprise...
The anatomy of a collapseAtlas Shrugged: Part I · 2011Five short steps lay out cause and effect until the collapse seems inevitable. - B14 lines
Kate, I want you to know I really care for your mother.
A stepfather, one day at a timeThe Christmas Chronicles: Part Two · 2020He will not claim the house tonight. He makes closeness a daily size she can actually hold. - B13 lines
Geez, you would think a construction site at lunch time
She finds the world flippedBarbie · 2023Woman power expectation, all-male site, then one word: reversed. - B14 lines
Just out there...
The tree in the rockSigned, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made · 2021He starts alone in the wind and ends by asking who is holding whom. - B25 lines
But it gets even better, babe.
Jordan's pitch to NaomiThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013He turns a prison sentence into a family budget and keeps smiling. - B14 lines
I think that moment was the beginning
The writers rewrite Monica and ChandlerFriends: The Reunion · 2021They walk from a one-night plan to the crowd forcing them to take the pairing seriously. - C24 lines
Go hang yourselves, all.
Malvolio's exit curseTwelfth Night · 2012Four short lines harden into a curse, hiding humiliation under wounded pride. - B15 lines
I feared losing you. Like I lost your mother.
The Sultan hands over powerAladdin · 2019He names the fear first, then trades little girl for next sultan. - B15 lines
On the northeast tip of North America, on an island called Newfoundland,
At the steelCome from Away · 2021A map of the island, then lost and found spoken as a pair. - B25 lines
You know...
Nine lives as a jokePuss in Boots: The Last Wish · 2022From not liking cats to calling extra lives absurd, the favor he offers is the last life. - B25 lines
I have the best, sir -
Corey on His Own CasesThe Crucible · 2014He turns a lifetime of lawsuits into proof that he knows his rights. - C14 lines
I hope that in years to come
The curse on the calendarOppenheimer · 2023He hands them pride, then books the day people will curse this place. - B24 lines
If this got out
Barbie in Los Angeles, if this got outBarbie · 2023Leak, life-size, walking the streets: each clause makes the disaster bigger. - B13 lines
If her baby ever needed a family--
If that baby needed a homeSigned, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made · 2021If-clauses stack until saying yes feels like answering a miracle. - B14 lines
Can I just say something?
Jennifer on being herselfFriends: The Reunion · 2021She apologizes for the wording, then calls the off-key weirdo the one who was actually herself.