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
- B28 lines
He has this-this unending potential, this dormant potential...
mocking the potential mythSlacker · 1990He peels the self-help myth apart until it becomes a lie that drives people. - B27 lines
So, anyway, one night she plays it real cool.
Elois gets her revengeReservoir Dogs · 1992It tightens from playing cool to calling the medics, turning revenge into grotesque comedy. - B25 lines
Four documents.
The lawyer reads the four documentsThe Social Network · 2010He recites the paperwork in clerk voice, and the old shares die inside the procedure. - B29 lines
Yeah. I guess for the last few days, I've been facing my own mortality.
Andy on facing deathBe Here Now · 2015He turns fear into relief, working it out aloud in short, halting lines. - B24 lines
Just in the last few days, really. You know, it was pretty bad last week.
Porter on SidneyDeathtrap · 1982He lists the crying, the drinking and the recovery calmly, care mixed with a lawyer's watching eye. - B213 lines
All last summer, Sebastian was famished for blonds.
A menu of peopleSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959Reciting a dead man's tastes like a menu makes the calm itself feel cold. - B29 lines
I wish you had some evil in you that you might
Proctor's ConfessionThe Crucible · 2014He moves from a truth about reputation to his own guilt, giving himself away line by line. - B24 lines
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. - (RONNIE) Pat told me.
Ronnie pleads for PatSilver Linings Playbook · 2012He stacks small claims and pushes until his friend gets one more chance. - B25 lines
You’re not your girlfriend.
Barbie strips Ken’s identityBarbie · 2023Girlfriend, house, mink, beach — each one crossed off until he is not those things. - B27 lines
Hey, everybody, listen up!
The new-issue-day rallyThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013He turns one firing into a speech that fuses fear with pure hype. - B214 lines
You return,
Blanc walks the crimeKnives Out · 2019Second person, step by step, as cold as a how-to. - B213 lines
Listen to me, Evey.
The speech that gives her back her strengthV for Vendetta · 2006Step by step he returns her to the moment she faced death, and the argument lands. - B28 lines
Now this is dynamite.
Cody's courtroom showdownInterstate 60 · 2002He moves from announcing dynamite to ordering the judge, all in a level, almost bored voice. - B210 lines
We're different.
Born differentThe Great Gatsby · 2013I, they, she — then one sentence that closes the door. - B216 lines
it's like I've had a total recalibration of my mind, you know.
the mind recalibratedSlacker · 1990He moves from an old mental wall to quantum physics and ends with a butterfly causing rain. - B29 lines
You guys like to tell jokes and giggle and kid around, huh?
Joe's prison jokeReservoir Dogs · 1992It turns a joke into a warning, closing on a question that lands like an order. - B26 lines
I think you should just feel it.
A wife's pleaBe Here Now · 2015She never tells him to be brave; she keeps handing the choice back to him. - B26 lines
Porter just gave me the figures of Myra's estate.
Sidney counts the estateDeathtrap · 1982Cold figures turn grief into arithmetic, and the arithmetic decides his next move. - B27 lines
We'll fly north, little bird.
The trip northSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959A tender promise collapses into one denial, releasing the whole regret. - B26 lines
I have seen my blood running out!
Abigail's OutburstThe Crucible · 2014She casts herself as the wounded one, and the short lines keep tightening the pressure. - B23 lines
But thanks to the Barbies,
The CEO keeps the titleBarbie · 2023He drops the existential burden and keeps CEO in the same breath, then resets Barbieland. - B222 lines
I wanna take a moment and tell you why Steve here is so absolutely off the fucking wall.
Jordan hypes Steve MaddenThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013The praise slides from worship into crude jokes, and the excess is the comedy. - B23 lines
You knew because there is the slightest,
A good nurseKnives Out · 2019He explains the save as repetition, then lets the compliment sit. - B25 lines
It's a basic principle of the universe...
The equal and opposing reactionV for Vendetta · 2006He frames revenge as physics, and the calm makes it land harder.