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
- B25 lines
They mean nothing cos nothing worth knowing is understood with the mind.
Isaac on the brainManhattan · 1979He argues against thinking with such conviction that the speech becomes its own joke. - B24 lines
I will be reborn in paradise.
Slaves for paradiseZodiac · 2007He files murder as afterlife staffing: rebirth, then a workforce of slaves. - B220 lines
Because it all tied up with something I'd been thinking about for years.
The Roulette Wheel ConfessionDouble Indemnity · 1944Neff turns his own slide into a craftsman's story, so the listener hears method, not remorse. - B25 lines
From out my forest by the riverside.
Putnam Claims the LandThe Crucible · 2014Five short beats push from where the timber came to who owns the ground, each louder than the last. - B27 lines
Everything I've been doing has just been a cry for help.
the cry for help confessionThis Is the End · 2013It slides from accusation into self-mockery, mixing tears with a crude joke. - B218 lines
But my second husband was Joe Dallet.
Kitty on the dead husbandOppenheimer · 2023From falling hard to a head over a trench; the cause is mud. - B27 lines
Unlike most well bred ladies, I was never taught to embroider.
What Enola was taughtEnola Holmes · 2020The refrain of I was taught turns embroidery's opposite into a reason to drive back. - B229 lines
Um, and this... my father's business partner...
Rain's confessionHusbands and Wives · 1992Three forbidden affairs in one breath, until it sounds like a plot and Gabe just sits there. - B25 lines
Here's a fun fact. You know where the term OK comes from?
The OK storySilver Linings Playbook · 2012A nerdy aside delivered with real delight, showing how Pat tries to charm a room. - B24 lines
I wanted to understand as much as I could about the procedure as possible.
Mary's nervous explanationEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · 2004She keeps correcting herself until the excuse collapses under its own weight. - B24 lines
But, you know, I adored Harold.
The widow tests remarriageLolita · 1962She moves from grief to desire in four lines and still lets him answer the last one. - B25 lines
You release him into that Slaughter Race game,
How Arthur bores a game to deathRalph Breaks the Internet · 2018He recites a user manual that is actually a disaster checklist. - B218 lines
That was turf protection you were just watching in there.
Hanssen on turfBreach · 2007He unpacks the agency's arrogance step by step, ending on a cold truth about its enemies. - B24 lines
Youth killed in robbery attempt.
the obituary read aloudBad Boys · 1983The flat newsread turns a death into a cold, official announcement. - B24 lines
Bring back everything that's ever hurt you.
Rocky loads the old woundsCreed · 2015He stacks the hurt, the blocks, the fists, then cashes it on the promise of the next punch. - B24 lines
And it was great PR for this company,
James defends the pulloutAtlas Shrugged: Part I · 2011Four tidy lines of reasoning collapse into one line of pure self-interest. - B26 lines
The sky's fallin' on your head. The waves are crashin' over your little boat.
The storm and the harbourGood Will Hunting · 1997The storm metaphor tightens line by line until it lands squarely on the man listening. - B211 lines
So we were at dinner however many years ago.
The wrong card storyBad Education · 2019He narrates his own slide in a flat voice, and the small sums do the damage. - B25 lines
Why do you grow them?
Ouiser's Southern creedSteel Magnolias · 1989It builds a mock code of Southern womanhood and delivers it as unanswerable fact. - B28 lines
Hello, sirs.
The killer's polite threatMy Fellow Americans · 1996Each courteous short line tightens the room. Hello becomes a countdown. - B26 lines
Yeah. Even though he's not here anymore,
Kate claims her peopleThe Christmas Chronicles: Part Two · 2020She starts with a dad who is gone and lands on wanting Christmas with Mom, Teddy, even Bob. - B213 lines
Dearly beloved, when Rupert here was a student at Clifton High School...
The imagined national apologyThe King of Comedy · 1982It borrows the cadence of a wedding and a broadcast to turn one man's grudge into a national rite. - B223 lines
Listen, I'm not taking any more chances.
the order to shut it all downUnited 93 · 2006From refusing more risks to declaring war on someone, the speech turns an emergency into a turning point. - B23 lines
It is the best day ever.
Every day is the best day everBarbie · 2023They read the calendar as endless perfection, so the death question actually lands.