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
- B111 lines
One day I was partying in my basement...
Mike on the vodka nightsAmerican Movie · 1999It starts in loneliness, finds company in Mark, and lands on quiet joy. - 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. - B17 lines
We're gonna make it back to Earth.
The captain's bad newsBeavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe · 2022She promises a return first, then names the price, and the room goes quiet. - B17 lines
You're right. Drop!
A father's late confessionFront of the Class · 2008He moves from admitting the stares to admitting helplessness, then finally takes the blame. - B18 lines
It wasn't long after we were married that Victor went back to Czechoslovakia.
Ilsa's Paris accountCasablanca · 1943She stacks plain facts and lets the silence after each one do the hurting. - B114 lines
I tend to do, like, the jerk, the swim.
On dancing at a Baptist churchThe End of the Tour · 2015He makes Baptist disco sound both corny and free. - B14 lines
Just write it down.
Schikaneder's ultimatumAmadeus · 1984The imperatives shorten line by line until one curse ends his patience. - B15 lines
A girl like you, for the rest of your life you wanna cry in your noodle soup?
Mrs. Dreyfuss's advice on marriageThe Apartment · 1960Her rapid questions mix scolding with real tenderness, as if she were planning for her own child. - B14 lines
Here's a picture of me with Jack Kemp.
the photo-album rambleBuffalo '66 · 1998She turns each snapshot into a small boast, and the piling up says more about her than the photos. - B14 lines
Twenty-two years we've been married.
The betrayed husband's confessionThe Shop Around the Corner · 1940He counts the years of the marriage, then admits she would not grow old with him. - B111 lines
This rock.
Aron's speech to the rock127 Hours · 2010Short lines build from awe to surrender, folding a whole life into one slab of stone. - B15 lines
Well, only someone from the palace
He reads class off a braceletAladdin · 2019Import chain, palace rank, all from jewelry, in the tone of tea. - B125 lines
Yeah STACY Adorable
Buy the tickets nowTurning Red · 2022They sell a concert like a cosmic appointment, future tense and all. - B19 lines
I was getting on the plane and there was this family
The airport boyBlue Jay · 2016She starts with a stranger's tantrum and slowly makes it about her own locked-up feelings. - B115 lines
Once upon a time, there were three little pigs.
The rewritten Three Little PigsMinions · 2015She opens like a storybook and lands on a wipeout. Bedtime becomes a contract. - B14 lines
Andy was booked in to go in for chemo and he got there and they decided that what they were going to do is run a scan to make sure there were no surprises.
Good News From the ScanBe Here Now · 2015It moves from a routine appointment to an unexpected scan and ends on real relief. - B17 lines
I must apologize for Myra's suspicions, Clifford.
Sidney calms the roomDeathtrap · 1982He soothes the visitor with an apology, then slides the attention back onto the cuffs. - B16 lines
I ask the American people to join me in saying a thanks
The president on the planeCome from Away · 2021Thanks, a prayer, then a test: the speech packs fear into will. - B16 lines
I bet you never even had a name.
Mama Luna names himPuss in Boots: The Last Wish · 2022She goes from no-name to Pickles and cheerfully files a legend under pet. - B15 lines
I don't give a shit about the sun!
Leona's truth speechBeaches · 1988Five unbroken lines turn a small lie about sunshine into a lifetime of resentment. - B115 lines
Well, back when the arcade first opened,
Felix tells the Turbo originWreck-It Ralph · 2012Arcade rise, stolen crowd, hijack, dual shutdown: the warning arrives in the order a kid would remember it. - B113 lines
Look, when your mother left...
The father's hard answerThe Town · 2010Not one comforting word, yet it captures both the harshness of that world and the father's helplessness. - B17 lines
I pull the Adventurer over whenever I feel like stretching my legs...
Roadside monologueAbout Schmidt · 2002The travelogue suddenly lands on Helen, turning a souvenir list into grief. - B15 lines
I don't believe in secrets.
Sandra's honesty speechBeautiful Thing · 1996She states a rule, then breaks it for kindness, and the gap is the point.