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
- B27 lines
Now, details on the sudden announcement...
The Golden Ticket bulletinWilly Wonka & the Chocolate Factory · 1971Short clauses stack the announcement, the number and the prize until the offer sounds unreal. - B25 lines
But, uh, I actually just adopted this incontinent spaniel.
Jonah's dog storyThis Is the End · 2013He tells a messy dog story with total sincerity, which is what makes it funny. - B26 lines
Well, if they do,
How stars dieOppenheimer · 2023He turns collapse and swallowed light into a black hole, then admits the work cannot save anyone in the room. - B28 lines
You know last I remember you were quite a timid little thing
Childhood as interrogationEnola Holmes · 2020The pine cone and the chasing father sound fond until you notice he is cataloguing a sister he has not visited. - B211 lines
It's me. You're living with her, aren't you? You've moved in together.
The cohabitation callHusbands and Wives · 1992Each line tightens the charge that Jack planned this. The swearing keeps time. - B25 lines
What are you doing, Dad? You... Excelsior. Excelsior.
the silver lining speechSilver Linings Playbook · 2012It builds from a stammer to a slogan to a blunt curse, lifting defeat into a vow. - B29 lines
Now, the, uh-- The first thing we need you to do, Mr. Barish,
the erasure walkthroughEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · 2004It turns deleting a person into a tidy service, moving from belongings to a promised new life. - B213 lines
You know, this house is roomy and cool. You see how cool it is.
The host's wild pitchLolita · 1962He escalates from offering rooms to offering executions, burying his fear in a torrent of sales talk. - B24 lines
Welcome back to the search bar, madam.
Search-bar greetingRalph Breaks the Internet · 2018Breakfast burrito small talk, then the next ticket, like a real help desk. - B26 lines
You're being tasked to Headquarters, where you'll be riding the desk of an agent named Robert Hanssen.
The handler's briefingBreach · 2007It stacks titles and history, then drops one warning, building a whole person. - B24 lines
I firebombed the bowling alley, killed three people.
Horowitz's crime storyBad Boys · 1983Four flat sentences turn a triple killing into an offhand story, which is what makes it land. - B26 lines
All right So his His wife that s not your mom
Donnie tells the Creed storyCreed · 2015Short broken sentences peel the scar: affair, foster care, juvie, then the woman who came and kept him. - B24 lines
Now, you create a distraction.
Tucker's planTucker and Dale vs. Evil · 2010He hands out the plan in clipped beats, calm and absurd at the same time. - B210 lines
Spielberg: I really wanted my childhood to be sort of the pie-in-the-sky, Norman Rockwell American Dream.
the home he wantedSpielberg · 2017He fills in the magazine family first, then lets the cracks show. - B25 lines
Other people are human.
James's emotional accusationAtlas Shrugged: Part I · 2011Five short lines escalate a business quarrel into a verdict on his sister's soul. - B27 lines
whereby a defendant can claim self-defense against an agent of the government...
Will's courtroom defenceGood Will Hunting · 1997He recites law like poetry, and the grander it sounds, the more it shows he is playing a game. - B242 lines
I was sleeping in their bed the night they went out.
Adam's account of the crashAll of Us Strangers · 2023The pauses and plain words carry years of held-back grief. - B25 lines
Look me in the eye.
Frank steadies the auditorBad Education · 2019He moves from order to repetition, pulling a panicking man back into control. - B25 lines
Nobody's going to be hurt or disappointed or even inconvenienced.
Shelby's outburstSteel Magnolias · 1989The speech climbs from promises to accusation, ending on the sharpest line in the scene. - B27 lines
I'm so sorry, and I'm so embarrassed,
The apology that will not stopMy Fellow Americans · 1996Courtesy keeps talking until it becomes a racial briefing, and the vice president has to walk him off the green. - B23 lines
Look, just because I care for Bob,
Claire claims both lovesThe Christmas Chronicles: Part Two · 2020She stammers through caring for Bob, then uses any less to keep the dead father on the scale. - B27 lines
That's coast-to-coast national TV...
The fame blueprint in the carThe King of Comedy · 1982He rattles off TV, beach house and hotel suite as if the dream were already booked and paid for. - B212 lines
I'm sitting here driving.
Carl's driving rantFargo · 1996It builds from complaint to sulking threat, and the silence he chooses is the punchline. - B26 lines
That is your signal you are safe to move about the cabin.
the captain's cabin announcementUnited 93 · 2006A routine, warm announcement cut against the disaster below makes the calm itself unbearable.