Movie monologues, one line at a time
1,967 real monologues from 152 films. Play a line, pause, say it back.
- 1Full speech: hear it once
- 2Shadow: repeat each line
- 3Blind: listen, then reveal
- C18 lines
I think if your clients wanna sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall,
Minimum attentionThe Social Network · 2010Shoulders, leftover attention, then the polite return question. He finishes the insult in open court. - C14 lines
Myra here has just been rattling on for a moment.
Sidney shuts it downDeathtrap · 1982He excuses his wife first, then closes the whole matter in a single cool sentence. - C124 lines
My lord, members of the jury,
Sir Wilfrid's address to the juryWitness for the Prosecution · 1957He concedes everything, then narrows the whole case to one witness and holds the room. - C18 lines
One of the best parts of my job is reading new writers and occasionally, even publishing them.
The editor's introduction5 to 7 · 2014She moves from a personal creed into concrete work, giving the reading the feel of a real opening. - C15 lines
After all, I've buried a husband and a son. I'm a widow and a...
The Widow's Unnamed GriefSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959She follows language to the edge of a word that does not exist for her. - C16 lines
All we were to them was a bunch of hicks.
Not a hickSLC Punk · 1998He turns an insult into a checklist of boots, horses, and blood, then rejects the label. - C128 lines
I thought you were one woman with sense, but you're like all the rest of them.
The captain's farewellThe Ghost and Mrs. Muir · 1947One long speech moves from reproach to blessing to goodbye, closing the whole story. - C123 lines
Now, if it were up to me...
Frawley's ultimatumThe Town · 2010From a hypothetical to a sentence, the calm escalation frightens more than shouting. - C18 lines
And so into this little tortured mind...
Hildy's story read aloudHis Girl Friday · 1940She turns Earl's motive into an elegy, and the calm sentences carry the irony. - C115 lines
So I shall change my way of collecting slaves.
New rules, then the blue pigsZodiac · 2007He writes murder as office hours, then baby-talks the cops about buses and booboos. - C14 lines
I want a mark of confidence, is all!
Parris Claims His RankThe Crucible · 2014He turns fear of dismissal into a claim that his office is above contradiction. - C16 lines
Now let's consider a star.
The collapsing-star lectureOppenheimer · 2023He treats a star as a furnace fighting gravity, and each sentence drops one floor. - C110 lines
See, I've always had, um, this penchant for what I call kamikaze women, because they...
The kamikaze theoryHusbands and Wives · 1992He coins the label, then sells every failed love as an aesthetic choice. - C19 lines
Spielberg: It was literally the worst period of my entire life.
Fifteen years of silenceSpielberg · 2017He names the worst years, claims the distance, then hears his father in his own work. - C120 lines
You've never been out of Boston.
Sean's Sistine Chapel speechGood Will Hunting · 1997It builds a wall of lived experience against everything Will has only read. - C111 lines
Okay, here’s the deal.
Weird Barbie’s power playBarbie · 2023Map, then bait, then take the power when the guard drops. - C18 lines
We move on now, ladies and gentlemen, to lot number 38. Lot 38.
The auctioneer's openingUncut Gems · 2019He stacks estimate, romance, and opening bid until the room has nowhere to sit except in the number. - C18 lines
Out of the blue. Out of the blue.
Carl's Sabotage TipAll the President's Men · 1976He races from a surprise tip to a nationwide sabotage plan, and the case flips on its head. - C115 lines
She slept with Leo Brockman, never having been to bed with anyone before but her husband,
the voice-over on her rebirthWhatever Works · 2009A deadpan voice-over walks her fall and rise step by step, and the flatness is the joke. - C15 lines
Well I ll tell you Think of yourselves as ingredients in a degustation concept
The chef reads the room as a recipeThe Menu · 2022He demotes the diners to ingredients without raising his voice, and the joke stops being a joke. - C130 lines
I'm sorry, but not everything needs to sound so goddamn clever or charming or likeable all the time.
Randall's on-air meltdownDon't Look Up · 2021It builds from a complaint about niceness to human extinction, and breaks off into a plea. - C17 lines
You know, Jordan, I'll tell you something.
Denham on privilegeThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013He trashes a whole class, then singles Jordan out, which is flattery with a hook. - C17 lines
But... But, I spoke in the car about the hole
The nested donutKnives Out · 2019He makes the case a hole you can see, then another hole inside it, like a tongue-twister. - C113 lines
Last night, I destroyed the Old Bailey...
V's invitation to ParliamentV for Vendetta · 2006It closes on an old rhyme and turns a bombing into a promise for next year.