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
- B25 lines
I see you down here again...
The threat that escalatesTraining Day · 2001Each line raises the stakes, from losing a car to bodily harm, and the pressure never lets up. - B29 lines
Now, look here, Vadas. Now, just a minute.
The pâté defenseThe Shop Around the Corner · 1940He litigates a dinner joke word by word, like a tiny office trial. - B26 lines
He has no wife and children, for he had a tragic history.
The colonel's pastSense and Sensibility · 1995Told in flat passives and bare dates, it lets the cruelty speak without any pleading. - B241 lines
You done wound me up.
Friend Like MeAladdin · 2019He sings the wish contract as a restaurant order. The laugh lands, then you notice it was the manual. - B233 lines
He began an affair with the downstairs neighbor...
Elsie's horror storyDeconstructing Harry · 1997She escalates from an affair to cannibalism, turning dinner talk into horror. - B211 lines
The next thing you know, they're borrowing money from you, they're spending it on other dames and betting on horses.
Sugar on sax playersSome Like It Hot · 1959The flat catalogue of betrayals makes her resignation funnier and sadder. - B233 lines
I don't tip because society says I have to.
Pink's no-tip speechReservoir Dogs · 1992He builds a small refusal into a full argument about rules, work and fairness. - B24 lines
Wilberforce, conditions in Jamaica are far more brutal than I could have imagined.
Clarkson's Jamaica reportAmazing Grace · 2006He lists the deaths as plain facts, then lands on sugar, so the horror sells itself. - B211 lines
Those six days of captivity in Kyrgyzstan
what captivity taught himThe Dawn Wall · 2017He walks the six days from fear to a surge of energy, then lands on a hard-won belief. - B24 lines
Lost in oblivion.
Freedom after hopeFight Club · 1999Each fragment drops a sense until hope itself is the thing released. - B27 lines
You know, it takes a lot of nerve to spend a beautiful evening with someone and then never call them again.
Doug's public accusationI Love You, Man · 2009It slides from polite irony to a crude outburst, letting hurt turn into rage in one breath. - B26 lines
I had a very strange mortality moment when I looked at them and I was like this eight hundred books here, and even if I...
The mortality mathBlue Jay · 2016She turns a shelf of unread books into a quiet measure of her remaining life. - B24 lines
At any given time Girl A has a rating R-a and Girl B has a rating R-b.
The chess formula on the wallThe Social Network · 2010He talks ratings like a recipe, and the friend is already inside the equation. - B24 lines
When my wife decided to end her life.
The butler explains his wifeClue · 1985In four flat sentences he moves from his wife's death to Boddy's hatred, and the calm is what lands. - B212 lines
Years passed as the Minions forged their own civilization.
The narrator puts Kevin onstageMinions · 2015First the tribe is emptied out. Then months of rehearsal collapse into one ready. - B25 lines
Even if it takes years, we are capable, together, Andy and I, of making extraordinary things happen.
On an extraordinary lifeBe Here Now · 2015It builds the couple's belief into a whole philosophy of living without fear. - B24 lines
Stammering: Is it really that good? It couldn't be, could it?
Sidney's disbeliefDeathtrap · 1982His stammer hides envy and admiration at once, and hints at everything to come. - B24 lines
and I think, "Where am I gonna park this thing?
Where do I park this thingCome from Away · 2021From a mutter in her head to jets packed like sardines, Gander fills in one look. - B29 lines
I worked in a department store, in toys, demonstrating children's building sets.
Vole on his scattered working lifeWitness for the Prosecution · 1957The plain list of odd jobs builds a portrait of a decent man who never found his footing. - B24 lines
Star light, star bright,
The wishing rhymePuss in Boots: The Last Wish · 2022Four rhymed lines turn a kids' chant into a spell, then hand off to the legend. - B24 lines
Because this is who you're dealing with.
The France rant5 to 7 · 2014He builds bias out of concrete anecdotes, as if compiling a case for the prosecution. - B238 lines
We saw the sea turtles crawl out of the sea...
The turtles' run to the seaSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959Piled-up verbs and zero self-pity make the slaughter feel like a nature documentary. - B222 lines
My mother told us to buckle up because things were going to get bumpy...
A crash told coldSLC Punk · 1998Every soft line is followed by a harder image, and the lie is what he wants heard. - B25 lines
No, but I'm really comfortable with where I am in my life, as you know.
Mary on her own lifeAnother Year · 2010She lists her blessings, admits the bad days, and keeps her loneliness just under the surface.