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
- C15 lines
Let me make this simple for you, gentlemen.
Groves sells the bombing as mercyOppenheimer · 2023Intel, invasion dead, then save lives as the last word on burning cities. - C18 lines
I know, I know. Sounds bad, right? But some of them...
Rattling the policeNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022She admits the pleasure, then stacks irritation, mistakes, and ruined testimony into one method. - C112 lines
You know, I went to Providence yesterday
Robby quotes a victimSpotlight · 2015Hockey, family, then collapse—and luck pins every alum in the room. - C17 lines
After the truth about Fuchs came out,
The surveillance tightensOppenheimer · 2023Bugs, tails, trash — then the line that fame was never armor. - C113 lines
But cross-examination in a sexual assault case, it is a completely different thing.
Not that kind of crossNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022The sport drains out of her voice as she justifies questioning someone she says she pities. - C17 lines
It's time, Robby. It's time!
Mike blowsSpotlight · 2015He stacks now, the kids, the scumbags, the pope—each beat hotter than the last. - C19 lines
Virtually everyone in the street,
Reading the blastOppenheimer · 2023Burns, then luck, then death locked to the flash. - C15 lines
Because, you know, I mean, we all think we know the absolute truth of our lives,
Memory as a defenseNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022Mismatched dresses and misplaced keys are walked forward until testing a woman's word sounds like the price of freedom. - C111 lines
Can I say something here?
Baron closes the nightSpotlight · 2015He calls the dark normal, splits the blame, then names the work and Monday. - C14 lines
I hope that in years to come
The curse on the calendarOppenheimer · 2023He hands them pride, then books the day people will curse this place. - C117 lines
'I'm sorry, Jenna, but I need to ask you a few questions.
Questions that close inNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022Drink, clothes, and the word no are stacked as facts she should accept, and the apology only arrives when the questioning is done. - C18 lines
A shabby little room, far from the limelight.
Strauss writes the procedureOppenheimer · 2023From the shabby room to the appeal, he scripts a killing as a renewal. - C112 lines
I run into a QC in the square outside.
The offer she reins inNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022The praise climbs into an offer, then money and a house rule pull it down. - C13 lines
Dr. Oppenheimer is a man of upstanding character.
Rabi vouches for characterOppenheimer · 2023He stacks loyalty: the man, the country, the friend, the institution. - C110 lines
I see me, I see my life, the one I have built, my career.
Witness in her own courtNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022The witness list turns private dread into the shape of a case she refuses. - C16 lines
Why go through all this against a man
Mermaids?Oppenheimer · 2023Resume, A-bomb, Super bomb, then a fairy tale that ends the hunger. - C17 lines
and now today is the day.
A plea from this seatNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022She counts her years, asks the law to prove justice, then says it looks different from the seat she is in. - C18 lines
the purpose of this letter is to state my opinion
Borden reads the letter to HooverOppenheimer · 2023He stacks probability until a scientist is written as a Soviet agent. - C19 lines
I was led into an interview room.
The spectator sits downNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022She walks from feet-up spectatorship into a room so cold she cannot even ask for a woman officer. - C15 lines
Dr. Bush, I thought I was performing a service
Bush on trying a manOppenheimer · 2023He starts from service to the country and lands on try me then. Principle rides on temper. - C18 lines
'It might not come up with much because I...
She drafts his defenceNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022The speech accelerates from a shower to the defence he has not spoken, and she is the one writing it. - C17 lines
The Oppenheimer matter was
Hill names the feudOppenheimer · 2023From animus to the isotope humiliation, then to a personnel system built to break a man. - C19 lines
No, my life is in the hands of the police, the CPS, the court system.
From no control to yesNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022It climbs from institutions and fear to the girl she might lose, then lands on yes. - C15 lines
'Cause I don't like your phrase.
Kitty breaks the questionOppenheimer · 2023She vetoes the wording, then cuts money and curiosity away from joining.