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
- B24 lines
Make a fresh start.
Brad's memory of middle schoolFront of the Class · 2008Three short lines and one tic carry the whole slide from hope to disappointment. - B25 lines
You come to my home and lay this shit on me!
The driveway turns it aroundSpotlight · 2015He admits the city knew, then throws the absence back at the reporter. Shame changes hands. - B28 lines
Anyway, it was meant to be. Comes the hour, comes the man.
The train to London24 Hour Party People · 2002He narrates a shambolic trip as if fate had scripted a coup. - B214 lines
It's the only thing that I'd gotten any, like, food pellets from the universe for.
Trapped by his writingThe End of the Tour · 2015He narrates depression and self-destructive coping as comedy, which makes it land harder. - B24 lines
My husband spends far more than he can ever earn.
Constanze's pleaAmadeus · 1984Four lines defend her husband and reveal how tired she is of it. - B27 lines
So I came to New York and moved in with my sister and her husband, a cab driver.
How Fran ended up in the elevatorThe Apartment · 1960Her flat account of school and a failed typing test lands on the elevator, where the whole affair begins. - B26 lines
First, call Larrabee Shipping.
Linus cancels everythingSabrina · 1954He issues one cancellation after another like a checklist, and the calm hides how much it costs him. - B227 lines
There's this serial burglar and, uh...
The peanut butter storyTraining Day · 2001The tale grows more absurd until the punchline lands as a cold fact. - B215 lines
Matuschek and Company, good morning.
Pepi's joke on the switchboardThe Shop Around the Corner · 1940He answers the shop like a clerk, then piles the gag until the whole floor is in on it. - B26 lines
Were I rich enough, I would pull down Combe Magna...
Willoughby's cottage vowSense and Sensibility · 1995He would tear down his own house to copy hers; the extravagance is exactly what charms her. - B26 lines
Make way for Prince Ali
Prince Ali's entrance numberAladdin · 2019Make way, drums, and a hard sell stacked until a fake prince owns the street. - B25 lines
I don't know what to say.
Harry lets goDeconstructing Harry · 1997From speechless to a doubled surrender, the admission of defeat lands quietly. - B29 lines
I only come ashore twice a day, when the tide goes out.
Junior on shells and oilSome Like It Hot · 1959He starts with the tide and ends with an oil empire, never raising his voice. - B25 lines
I don't wanna kill anybody, but if I gotta get out that door and you're in my way, one way or the other you're getting out of my way.
White's line in the sandReservoir Dogs · 1992He draws a line and shows exactly what crossing it costs. - B26 lines
My name is Tom Evans. I've been for many years photographing climbers on El Cap.
the photographer's vigilThe Dawn Wall · 2017The photographer introduces himself, then builds quiet awe into a declaration of witness. - B24 lines
Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but... every once in a while...
indefinite article policyFight Club · 1999He hides a crude joke inside the grammar of corporate policy. - B23 lines
Ma'am, I know you've done your homework,
Mark buys the streetThe Social Network · 2010He pretends money is small, then drops a street and a ping-pong room on the table. - B24 lines
The nation, nay, the world was celebrating Kevin, Stuart and Bob.
Narrator says things finally go their wayMinions · 2015Nay piles the cheer, then the next line leaves the crown hanging. - B210 lines
To me, it's very simple.
The treatment planBe Here Now · 2015He turns a frightening relapse into three plain steps, and the calm is what steadies the room. - B27 lines
Darling, you're a writer. All writers go through periods like this.
Myra's sales pitchDeathtrap · 1982She builds a staircase of reasons, each step making the call seem inevitable. - B26 lines
It's a big room of cats and dogs and chimpanzees.
Bonnie stays with the pregnant apeCome from Away · 2021Animal noise under human panic. The hangar becomes the pressure cooker. - B26 lines
That woman's up to something. But what?
the lawyer's desperate tallyWitness for the Prosecution · 1957A few short lines carry the case from suspicion to total defeat in one breath. - B27 lines
Whenever I've let my guard down,
Kitty's no-trust speechPuss in Boots: The Last Wish · 2022She walks from dropped guards to a poker table and nails trust shut, line by line. - B26 lines
Millions of years ago, dinosaurs fed on leaves of those trees.
The dinosaur metaphorSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959It frames extinction as the fate of the gentle, then turns the point quietly on people.