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
- B213 lines
Now the things you gotta remember are the details.
The handler's story lessonReservoir Dogs · 1992Twelve straight lines build a method for lying, from details to relentless repetition. - B27 lines
I was having dinner in the Kirkland dining hall with Mark,
The dining-hall chicken confessionThe Social Network · 2010Each extra detail makes the rite dumber and the headline heavier. - B25 lines
This drug that we're going to give you now
Gibson's last optionBe Here Now · 2015He explains the drug, then closes the door on every other option. - B25 lines
If they do come, I'll simply say that he did write to me...
Sidney's cover storyDeathtrap · 1982He rehearses a lie like a schedule, and the precise details make it chilling. - B24 lines
Star light, star bright,
Jack recites the star rhymePuss in Boots: The Last Wish · 2022The nursery couplet never finishes, so greed is caught mid-spell. - B27 lines
Mr. Brossard, the new lawyer we got...
the mother's praiseSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959She praises the lawyer, mourns the widow, and arrives at the will, all in a tone of sympathy. - B213 lines
I pulled his hair out of his fucking head. I bit him. He's out cold.
Henry recounts the beatingGoodFellas · 1990Short stacked sentences make the violence sound breathless and almost routine. - B24 lines
I never had no wife that be so taken with and I thought to find the cause of it, d’y’see,
Corey on His WifeThe Crucible · 2014He slides from explaining his wife to admitting he cut off all goodwill with her. - B29 lines
Maybe I didn't
The father's confessionSilver Linings Playbook · 2012After all the football talk, the real confession about missing his son's childhood lands hardest. - B220 lines
Mr. Swine...
The judo boastLolita · 1962He turns getting flipped onto the floor into a proud ritual, and the comedy builds with each detail. - B26 lines
Look around you, boss.
O'Neill's counter-speechBreach · 2007It starts with a simple look around and strips the suspicion down fact by fact. - B25 lines
So after a short while, no surprise...
The anatomy of a collapseAtlas Shrugged: Part I · 2011Five short steps lay out cause and effect until the collapse seems inevitable. - B24 lines
My father was an alcoholic. Mean, fuckin' drunk.
Sean's childhood confessionGood Will Hunting · 1997The flat, matter-of-fact delivery makes the remembered violence hit harder than any complaint. - B214 lines
Listen, I know exactly where you’re going with this,
The CEO’s made-of-women speechBarbie · 2023The progress list slides into a swear and a box order, and the alibi eats itself. - B28 lines
That night, the girl Carmel had been told she must leave Windward.
the cliff confessionThe Uninvited · 1944The account tightens sentence by sentence until the blow lands, and Holloway's calm becomes chilling. - B26 lines
Three days later, I filed for a divorce and moved Naomi into the apartment.
Moving Naomi inThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013Divorce, moving and redecorating pass in a few calm lines that still manage to brag. - B29 lines
I think it means our father finally came to his senses
Linda cuts him publiclyKnives Out · 2019She stacks the burned bridges, then drops the will like a gavel. - B216 lines
Am I to understand that you have read this document, inspector?
The national security warningV for Vendetta · 2006It climbs from a question to an order, stacking charges until silence sounds like law. - B26 lines
Some people say, we have a frontier in the mind.
Cody debunks fake frontiersInterstate 60 · 2002He dismisses drink, drugs and computers in turn, and the sarcasm keeps building. - B213 lines
It's always difficult to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this.
Juror Eight on prejudice12 Angry Men · 1957He admits his own bias before naming the standard, which makes the speech hard to dismiss. - B27 lines
...this letter here? DAISY: We can't lose each other...
Daisy's old letterThe Great Gatsby · 2013The letter stacks glory and going home, as if five years could be read aloud. - B247 lines
I got a call at my house about 3:30 one morning.
The detective on the confessionThe Thin Blue Line · 1988It moves from building evidence to a flat confession to an almost comic search for the gun. - B24 lines
You know, I got the audition sides across my fax machine,
Janice came in on a faxFriends: The Reunion · 2021From faxed sides to she lives in me: the part as something already inside her. - B27 lines
I've always dreamed of pulling a Guy Fawkes on the Texas Legislature.
the Guy Fawkes dreamSlacker · 1990A fantasy of blowing up the legislature slides into contempt for fake libertarians.