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
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Sheriff Wade Conlon was already a controversial nominee, with no law degree and a record of "shoot first and ask questions later.
The anchor drops a scandalDon't Look Up · 2021The broadcast builds piece by piece until a nomination becomes a laughing-stock scandal. - B213 lines
Aah, experience has conditioned you into thinking that all hearts are red, and all spades are black.
Ray's lesson on perceptionInterstate 60 · 2002It moves from a card trick to highways and the brain, making abstraction concrete. - B233 lines
I got up from that chair there...
Leslie replays the shootingThe Letter · 1940She walks the room step by step until the chambers click empty, and the calm is what chills. - B24 lines
Oh, I love it.
New York opens the mapUncle Frank · 2020He starts with love of the city, then stretches Creekville until a fourteen-year-old can see past the porch. - B230 lines
Number one rule of Wall Street.
The number one ruleThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013He moves from market chaos to client addiction, laying out the firm's whole business creed. - B24 lines
I mean, we're all gutted, but, uh,
Walt’s succession speechKnives Out · 2019Grief first, then he turns companionship into a crown. - B27 lines
Gentlemen, this is a test.
The chancellor's speechV for Vendetta · 2006It turns a security failure into a holy test, a textbook piece of authoritarian rhetoric. - B24 lines
Cool. So I guess it's just us, then. A little father and son bonding trip to Mexico.
Kenny kills the father-son tripWe're the Millers · 2013Four lines from bonding trip to pervert Olympics, and the girl is no longer optional. - B215 lines
Come on now, darling. Think of everything you've sacrificed.
Facilier's sales pitchThe Princess and the Frog · 2009Praise, then her father's fatigue, then the easy close. You can hear the trap tighten one courtesy at a time. - B216 lines
Let me see here. Once, there was, uh, this island
Fink's origin fairy taleThe Wild Robot · 2024He turns a crash and a blank memory into a star that sent a mother, and keeps the voice soft. - B27 lines
But just so you know,
The death briefingWrath of Man · 2021Bodies first, then extra training, so fear and loyalty share a sentence. - B26 lines
This boy, let's say he's the product of a broken home and a filthy neighborhood.
Juror 10 on slums12 Angry Men · 1957He slides from broken homes to a menace to society, dressing prejudice up as experience. - B212 lines
I can't understand these armchair officers...
Mireau's creed on soldiersPaths of Glory · 1957It moves from mockery to a creed, each line harder than the last. - B28 lines
When I was maybe 12, after church...
Brenda's Marine dreamAmerican Underdog · 2021She starts with a stranger's blessing and ends with a decision, letting hope harden into resolve. - B24 lines
All right, listen. I took out $300, but I'm only betting with 100.
Trent's casino planSwingers · 1996He turns casino perks into a confident little hustle, and it almost works. - B27 lines
Okay. I'm Dostoyevsky. You're Anna. We're writing The Gambler.
dictating The GamblerSlacker · 1990He escalates from a joke into a full literary aria about the craft of not creating. - B24 lines
Oh, Henry's much more pragmatic.
How she talks about HenryDownton Abbey: A New Era · 2022Pragmatic, endurance, workmate: she turns romance into the day’s work and still leaves a door ajar. - B25 lines
Because, once upon a time, a Jewish man mated with a fish.
the race rant and the book burningJojo Rabbit · 2019Absurdity delivered as common sense slides straight into a book burning. - B26 lines
No money. For these courts.
The terms of the betAmerican History X · 1998Each line raises the stakes until the court becomes a border, and losing means exile. - B211 lines
When I was little...
Stella's childhood dreamThe Uninvited · 1944The small flame that appears and is snuffed out turns safety and fear into a bedtime tale. - B210 lines
Mandrake, do you recall what clemenceau once said about war?
Ripper's monologue on warDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964It glides from a statesman's quote into paranoid fantasy, dead serious the whole way. - B24 lines
Here you see the celebrated hospitality of the East.
Aziz on his own homeA Passage to India · 1984He mocks his own shabby home with a grand phrase and shields his friends. - B25 lines
It makes me just wanna pick up whoever...
Wants to throw someone out a windowThe Lego Movie · 2014Polite office talk, then the nearest body is suddenly the target. - B25 lines
Seven chipmunks twirling on a branch...
The seven rhymeThere's Something About Mary · 1998The pitch slides into nonsense verse, which is where the sales routine peaks.