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
- A24 lines
Ginger ale is pop, Ma.
the glass of waterBuffalo '66 · 1998He keeps batting away the soda, and the repetition carries his quiet exasperation. - B24 lines
My heart was trembling as I walked into the post office "and there you were, lying in box 237.
The letter in box 237The Shop Around the Corner · 1940She walks into the post office as if toward a person; the envelope in the box is already a meeting. - 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. - B14 lines
Gotta keep one jump Ahead of the bread line
One Jump AheadAladdin · 2019He folds running, hunger, and theft into one work chant and keeps dancing on the roofs. - B25 lines
I walk in the door, he's like, "Vic, I'm so glad somebody's finally here who knows what's going on.
Eddie quotes his fatherReservoir Dogs · 1992He re-enacts Joe's complaints word for word, then makes Joe own them out loud. - 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. - B25 lines
I think there was a natural growing apart, desires we had outside of climbing.
explaining the cracksThe Dawn Wall · 2017He moves from natural drift to failed glue, admitting the end almost gently. - B24 lines
Lost in oblivion.
Freedom after hopeFight Club · 1999Each fragment drops a sense until hope itself is the thing released. - B14 lines
In the back of this truck. At the lake.
Amanda's confessionBlue Jay · 2016From the lake to the plumber joke, she turns one memory into a whole youth. - B24 lines
The first thing we're going to need is a lot of pictures.
Let the hacking beginThe Social Network · 2010He lists the photos he does not have, then fires the starting gun. - B25 lines
I have something to say.
Mr. Green's confessionClue · 1985He seizes the floor, admits his secret, and admits why he can never let it out. - B14 lines
Evil.
Scarlet introduces herselfMinions · 2015She stamps evil three times, then shrugs it into a paycheck. - B25 lines
Even if it takes years, we are capable, together, Andy and I, of making extraordinary things happen.
On an extraordinary lifeBe Here Now · 2015It builds the couple's belief into a whole philosophy of living without fear. - B24 lines
What I should do is beat the fat bastard on the head...
Sidney's murder fantasyDeathtrap · 1982The mace, the hole and the stolen credit roll out as casually as a shopping list. - B24 lines
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain.
The lighting-glitch PACome from Away · 2021She names the crisis, then trades it for lights, four lines that pin the cabin down. - B25 lines
Come now, Sir Wilfrid, you must not think of it.
the nurse's bedtime routineWitness for the Prosecution · 1957A run of small domestic orders shows how much the nurse controls the old lawyer's day. - B15 lines
Relax! I am Puss in Boots.
Puss laughs at deathPuss in Boots: The Last Wish · 2022From relax to nine lives, he sells fear as the brand smile. - B24 lines
I highly recommend it to you, by the way.
A pitch for the dinner5 to 7 · 2014The smoother her sales pitch, the more the invitation feels like a trap. - 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. - B25 lines
I don't have a big heart, Trish.
Refusing pitySLC Punk · 1998The big heart shrinks to a pea, then the speaker asks them to stop feeling sorry. - B25 lines
No, but I'm really comfortable with where I am in my life, as you know.
Mary on her own lifeAnother Year · 2010She lists her blessings, admits the bad days, and keeps her loneliness just under the surface. - B24 lines
She's so fat, I had to roll her in flour and look for the wet spot.
Joe's fat-wife routine under a gunThe Last Boy Scout · 1991Telling jokes at gunpoint turns terror into comedy, and the timing is what makes it work. - B25 lines
Ride? All I ride is the subway.
CC's replyBeaches · 1988She answers a world of horses with a subway joke, then admits she hates her hair. - B14 lines
I know it's tough,
Hand it to the heroWreck-It Ralph · 2012He names the pain, then asks Ralph to carry it like honor.