Movie monologues, one line at a time
2,019 real monologues from 158 films. Play a line, pause, say it back.
- 1Full speech: hear it once
- 2Shadow: repeat each line
- 3Blind: listen, then reveal
- 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. - 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. - B24 lines
See, I made a wish to meet the right guy.
Lynn's fairy-tale speechInterstate 60 · 2002She turns a chance meeting into a fairy-tale test, half teasing, half serious. - 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. - B28 lines
You see, after we left New York, she was very nervous.
Gatsby takes the crashThe Great Gatsby · 2013He starts with her nerves, then gives the wheel back in a whisper. Confession as cover. - B222 lines
And then you got the whole other end of the realm where there's like the Smurfs...
the Smurfs as a familySlacker · 1990He turns a children's cartoon into a lecture on bribery, belonging and belief. - B216 lines
What happens if the manager won't give you the diamonds?
Joe's plan for resistanceReservoir Dogs · 1992The tone cools from a broken nose to a cut finger, making violence sound routine. - B210 lines
I'm just trying to find some serenity, and some calm in it.
Fear, anger, and loveBe Here Now · 2015In one calm stretch he moves from exhaustion to love, summing up the film's whole creed. - B24 lines
Victor lives just long enough to tell the truth about himself and Julian...
The play's closing beatsDeathtrap · 1982Truth, a suicide and a curtain fall in a few tight beats, like pages turning. - B26 lines
That volume contains only one poem, as do the others I have.
A poem a summerSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959She turns writing into a ritual, and the calm shows how central she believes she is. - B24 lines
A fire, a fire is burning!
Proctor's courtroom outburstThe Crucible · 2014It builds from fire to the devil's face and drags the judges into the same flames. - B29 lines
Okay, what about Ordinary Barbie?
Gloria invents Ordinary BarbieBarbie · 2023She uses maybe to leave room for mom, president, or neither, then lands on getting through the day. - B212 lines
All right, I want you all to focus for a second.
The telephone rallyThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013He turns a plain phone into a target and his brokers into killers and warriors. - B243 lines
Our story begins, as these stories often do...
Rookwood's conspiracy storyV for Vendetta · 2006It tells a massacre like a fairy tale, which makes the horror land harder. - B210 lines
Listen, she was in the wrong, running out on the road.
Tom talks Daisy downThe Great Gatsby · 2013He blames the woman in the road, then sells leaving town like a weekend.