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
- B15 lines
Mirabel, I know you want to help.
Abuela asks her to step asideEncanto · 2021She first credits the wish to help, then sells absence as the family's best gift. - B14 lines
and that he and the guys made bucks hustling while other guys...
In defense of the menGoodFellas · 1990She grants them no schooling, then explains the shortcuts as plain survival. - B16 lines
My dear friends, you are now about to enter the nerve center...
Wonka's room revealWilly Wonka & the Chocolate Factory · 1971He builds mystery, then drops the wonder in one plain line about eating everything. - B15 lines
We can't leave. I'm not leaving, okay? I'm a victim.
Jay's victim speechThis Is the End · 2013It climbs from stubborn refusal to childhood humiliation, so the joke and the fear share one breath. - B16 lines
Come here. What are you gonna do about that song? Huh?
The cop talking Pat downSilver Linings Playbook · 2012He keeps shrinking the fear, repeating no song until Pat can breathe again. - B14 lines
I don't know! I'm lost, I'm scared, I feel like I'm disappearing.
Clementine's breakdownEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · 2004The repeated line shows a mind coming apart while Joel can only watch. - B18 lines
It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year Notice how he emphasizes this word.
A Poe lesson out loudLolita · 1962He performs the poem and dissects it at the same time, turning a lesson into an invitation. - B17 lines
That sign right there says "Wi-Fi.
Calhoun's Die-Fi briefingRalph Breaks the Internet · 2018She walks from a letter-swap joke to a three-step ban like a drill sergeant. - B16 lines
She didn't like it, boss. She didn't get it.
Eric's confessionBreach · 2007The run of short lines turns a clumsy excuse into something close to an apology. - B110 lines
Freedom was in jeopardy...
War documentary voiceoverAn American Crime · 2007Short lines stack danger on danger until the war sounds unavoidable and enormous. - B111 lines
You guys are all a bunch of fucking pussies, you know that?
Chad's no-rules speechTucker and Dale vs. Evil · 2010It climbs from insults to a twisted creed, making madness sound almost coherent. - B123 lines
I used to plot it all out.
The life they never hadAll of Us Strangers · 2023He narrates the childhood they never had in ordinary detail, and that ordinariness is what breaks your heart. - B15 lines
Santa was living in Asia Minor. Today, it's called Turkey.
How Santa beganThe Christmas Chronicles: Part Two · 2020From a bishop who liked giving to elves who followed the rumor, like turning a picture book. - B18 lines
Dorothy Vallens is married, to a man named Don.
The case laid outBlue Velvet · 1986He turns a night of snooping into a cold chain of cause and effect. - B14 lines
I heard that she used to be the most beautiful Barbie of all,
The Weird Barbie legendBarbie · 2023Fairy-tale fate, then they say the nickname to her face. Cold and funny. - B14 lines
No, I didn't think so. You see, Pino, this is a respectable business and there's nothing wrong with that.
Sal defends the pizzeriaDo the Right Thing · 1989Four rising lines turn a defence of the family business into a dare his son cannot answer. - B113 lines
Dear John,
The mother's letterSigned, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made · 2021She writes I miss you, then leukemia, and leaves the fear in the pause. - B15 lines
Whenever she suspected I was getting bored, she would put on a live show for me.
Joe on Norma's folliesSunset Boulevard · 1950A faded star's private show, recalled with fondness and a chill. - B14 lines
Of course, to have children, you don't need a license. No proof of anything.
Boris on parenting licensesWhatever Works · 2009The rant stacks one absurd license after another until the real outrage lands. - B111 lines
It is these people who brought this upon us.
The sacrifice pitchThe Mist · 2007Each clause tightens the noose from blame to blood. - 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. - B16 lines
What does that mean? Look, brother, I am sitting here
Buddy says this moment is realFree Guy · 2021The ghost joke drops, and friendship does the work philosophy cannot: right here, this second. - B17 lines
Hi. I'm not home right now. I'll call you right back.
the answering-machine messageWhen Harry Met Sally... · 1989Listing options A, B and C to a machine shows how alone and stuck he really is. - B16 lines
8-ball, is the murder weapon in this box?
Interrogating the 8-ballInterstate 60 · 2002He hands his fate to a plastic toy, and the harder he tries the funnier and sadder it gets.