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
- B26 lines
Dear Joshua, Alan told me to write and apologize.
the forged apology letterCan You Ever Forgive Me? · 2018It strings a hangover, an apology and a signature into a letter that sounds exactly like Parker. - B26 lines
The only thing we can do.
The warden's speechBeavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe · 2022A weary warden turns a prison mess into a lesson and lets the boys go. - B26 lines
You are a villain. I jest not.
Benedick's challengeMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993Polite thanks, a flat accusation, a formal challenge, then goodbye - all without raising his voice. - B26 lines
I want to make teaching my life. [barking]
Explaining Tourette's in an interviewFront of the Class · 2008He moves from his dream to his condition, as calm as a teacher and as honest as a confession. - B27 lines
This city, these people,
Takes a village to abuse oneSpotlight · 2015From not belonging to the proverb flip that indicts the whole city. - B24 lines
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented.
a rant about jazz24 Hour Party People · 2002Four escalating put-downs turn a music snob into a punchline. - B25 lines
I have a proposition for whoever has those letters. I'll handle the entire transaction.
Ferrari's propositionCasablanca · 1943He lays out his cut, the risk and the extras like a contract, and never blinks. - B29 lines
In Tucson. It was, like, a hundred degrees all the time.
The bandanna explainedThe End of the Tour · 2015Wallace turns a silly accessory into an honest picture of his anxiety. - B25 lines
Grazie,Signore.
Salieri's lamentAmadeus · 1984Four lines to God, and every one cuts, carrying a lifetime of resentment. - B24 lines
Let me see. There was Miss Olsen, and then there was Miss Rossi.
Fran counts the womenThe Apartment · 1960She recites his history like a list, and the calm delivery is the punishment. - B24 lines
This is what you do on your very first day in Paris.
A first day in ParisSabrina · 1954He builds Paris out of rain, a taxi and chestnut trees, one sensation at a time. - B25 lines
If I was a dealer, you'd be dead by now, motherfucker.
The dressing-downTraining Day · 2001It stacks the threat, the guilt and the rejection into one relentless run. - 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. - B24 lines
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.
Marianne recites a sonnetSense and Sensibility · 1995The two voices take the sonnet turn by turn, and the shared rhythm is the real courtship. - B214 lines
So, here's the basics. Step one, rub the lamp.
Three-wish house rulesAladdin · 2019Steps first, bans second, then a joke invitation he immediately retracts. - B212 lines
He's not so bad, Burt.
A sister remembers HarryDeconstructing Harry · 1997A sister's mixed tenderness and grievance, delivered secondhand by the son. - B210 lines
As a matter of fact, it's cost my family quite a bit of money.
Osgood on his marriagesSome Like It Hot · 1959Each line drops another absurd detail as if it were the most ordinary thing. - B27 lines
Where did all those cops come from, huh?
Pink's setup theoryReservoir Dogs · 1992He uses response times and a second wave of officers to build a case step by step. - B26 lines
Africa, your sufferings have been a theme that has engaged and arrested my heart.
A vow spoken in painAmazing Grace · 2006He turns suffering into a divine commission, and the parallel lines carry pure will. - 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. - B28 lines
Well, I'm still here.
Chloe's last askFight Club · 1999Each polite step strips certainty until the ask is bluntly sexual and lonely. - B211 lines
I just always have felt understood by them.
Amanda on her greyhoundsBlue Jay · 2016Her voice slows as she turns a rescue into a story about being understood. - B24 lines
You know, I've already apologized in The Crimson to the ABHW,
Sorry, now clapThe Social Network · 2010He checks the apology box, then flips the hearing into a pitch for credit. - B212 lines
I suggest we handle this in proper military fashion.
The colonel's military planClue · 1985He turns a house search into a battlefield and makes casualties sound routine.