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
If this got out
Barbie in Los Angeles, if this got outBarbie · 2023Leak, life-size, walking the streets: each clause makes the disaster bigger. - B26 lines
I didn't know where I was going. I just had to get out of there.
Joe's escapeSunset Boulevard · 1950Six voice-over lines move from suffocation to noise, painting a whole room of hopeful failures. - B24 lines
You gotta come in now. We can't wait till the second half.
the sideline planM*A*S*H · 1970It rushes one man in and slows everyone else down, a plan built on pure calculation. - B26 lines
He's got a passion for hard-boiled eggs. Did you know?
Pam on BobbyThe Uninvited · 1944A joke about the dog quietly turns into a wish to have met sooner. - B27 lines
Go outside into your yard, onto a roof, onto your sidewalk, and just look up into the sky.
The appeal to look upDon't Look Up · 2021It stacks ordinary places and flat verdicts until a science note becomes a public call. - B212 lines
Right now everything is great. Everyone is happy. Everyone is in love.
Harry's marriage warningWhen Harry Met Sally... · 1989The speech slides from everyone-is-in-love to screaming over furniture, building by exaggeration. - B27 lines
I want to stay married, Dad, but...
A father-and-son talkThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013He wants to stay married yet admits the pull of temptation, and the honesty makes it land. - B27 lines
Pay attention, now.
Harlan uses the family as leverageKnives Out · 2019He names the mother with no papers, then locks Marta into one unarguable drill. - B212 lines
You see, we are both fugitives in our own way.
Gordon on wearing a maskV for Vendetta · 2006He moves from a wry joke to a confession of years spent hiding, and lands it quietly. - B28 lines
Here's my proposition.
Cody's contract termsInterstate 60 · 2002He reads out a job offer like a contract, and every clause quietly marks who holds power. - B24 lines
Maybe the boy did kill his father, didn't hear the scream...
Juror Eight's chain of maybes12 Angry Men · 1957A chain of maybes builds, then breaks open: maybe it happened, and maybe it did not. - B24 lines
You know I'm preparing the city for imminent invasion, right?
the invasion briefingJojo Rabbit · 2019It slides from serious defense talk into a cannibal rumor, and the drop is the joke. - B232 lines
Uh... Ahem. Hey, everybody.
Wyldstyle’s TV rallyThe Lego Movie · 2014An apology becomes a citywide order, the pun hits the pavement, and it ends on a Tuesday joke. - B24 lines
It's no coincidence.
Why he bought the houseThe Great Gatsby · 2013Four beats drop the mask: coincidence, then the house, the parties, the tea. - B24 lines
Do you remember, Clive, we used to say, "Our armies are fighting for our women, our children and our homes"?
Theo on warThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943He dismantles the old slogan step by step, then closes with a question that has no answer. - B25 lines
They already decided what to do with you in the hall.
The witness on the scalesThe Thin Blue Line · 1988From a decision in the hall to a swinging scale, it ends like a verdict. - B24 lines
Some of that was you had to do some bottle shows.
The creators on bottle showsFriends: The Reunion · 2021They turn a budget lock into a writing method: put everybody in one room. - B210 lines
Please, sir, listen.
Harry's pleaNight and the City · 1950He moves from accounting to oath-taking, laying bare a small man's desperation without winning anything. - B24 lines
I've been thinking about writing a new book.
Lee's book requestCan You Ever Forgive Me? · 2018She lays the request out in three hesitant pieces, each one more personal. - B28 lines
The only thing that worried me was the actual killing.
Salieri imagines the killingAmadeus · 1984From dreaming to doing it yourself, the monologue admits the fear plainly. - B27 lines
He says, " If he had smiled, why would he have smiled?
the betrayed husband passageSlacker · 1990Its rolling parallel clauses turn one husband's betrayal into a loop with no first or last. - B29 lines
Says that you're the shooter, OK?
The frame-up threatTraining Day · 2001It moves from a blood test to a death threat without raising its voice, which makes it colder. - B218 lines
Written in stone Ev'ry rule, ev'ry word
SpeechlessAladdin · 2019The old rules get sung, then stacked, until the chorus is a refusal to go mute. - B212 lines
I would not have burdened you, Miss Dashwood...
Brandon's confessionSense and Sensibility · 1995The broken, halting sentences let the listener feel anger held under a calm voice.