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
- C110 lines
Sweet Mary Jane is my vice of choice, as you well know.
Mickey's sermon on viceThe Gentlemen · 2020Mickey turns his own trade into a moral ladder, climbing to the claim that facilitation is participation. - C15 lines
I was with my family in an ice-cream parlor...
A jab over ice creamThe Thin Blue Line · 1988The insult lands in the most ordinary setting, which makes it colder. - C18 lines
I feel bad that I've just said that. I just... I want him to be better.
Regret after the insultNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022The insult softens into an old friendship and ends on a mother picking up food. - C18 lines
What fire is in mine ears?
Beatrice gives up her prideMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993She moves from wounded pride to open surrender, and every line lowers her guard a little more. - C15 lines
Look, I told you guys, these are tough cases.
MacLeish sells the settlementSpotlight · 2015He turns a system that hid priests into a story about how hard the cases were. - C16 lines
She never told her love,
A daughter's silent loveTwelfth Night · 2012Three images of decay and stone end in one question that turns a tale into an accusation. - C15 lines
Winds blow ships from Africa to the Indies naturally, as if the route were blessed by God.
The defence of the tradeAmazing Grace · 2006He stacks up arguments from wind to fish, dressing profit as providence. - C111 lines
And I honestly cannot think...
Sidney's calm confessionDeathtrap · 1982It drifts from celebrity gossip to his own fortune and then to murder, calm all the way. - C18 lines
I know it sounds hopelessly vain to say...
The Famous CoupleSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959She calls it vanity, then savours every detail of being watched. - C119 lines
Problems and contradictions: I am an anarchist.
The anarchist loopSLC Punk · 1998The listener is led from creed to government and back, and has to sit with the loop. - C16 lines
Neutrons smash into nucleus,
The atmosphere calculationOppenheimer · 2023He walks from neutrons hitting a nucleus to the end of the world, like reading a formula as doom. - C113 lines
Spielberg: I certainly experienced being excluded and being picked on and discriminated against.
Denying a name aloudSpielberg · 2017Each question from the friends closes a door while the grandfather keeps shouting behind them. - C15 lines
Most days I wish I never met you...
Lambeau's confessionGood Will Hunting · 1997He admits Will outshines him and then confesses the pain of watching it wasted. - C16 lines
Should you try and undermine me,
Mickey's poisoned warningThe Gentlemen · 2020Mickey wraps a death threat in courtly courtesy, making the poison feel like manners. - C110 lines
When the Appellate Court reverses a case...
The judge on how appeals workThe Thin Blue Line · 1988He tallies the votes, then one short line sends the whole argument sideways. - C15 lines
'Look back and hear this. One of the three of you will not make it.
one-in-three warningNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022Each sentence shrinks the room until classmates are opponents and the game begins. - C17 lines
She dying, as it must be so maintained,
The friar's planMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993He lays out a lie as if it were mercy, and the calm delivery is what persuades them. - C14 lines
I think if you really want to understand the crisis,
Sipe on the culture of secrecySpotlight · 2015He walks from required celibacy to cover for abusers and names the crisis as a system. - C17 lines
Having been three months married to her sitting in my state...
Malvolio's count fantasyTwelfth Night · 2012He furnishes the fantasy down to the officers and the gowns, and detail is what makes the fall funny. - C16 lines
My honourable friend, the member for Liverpool, seeks evidence of people's concern.
Wilberforce answers with namesAmazing Grace · 2006Instead of arguing, he answers with names, letting the signatures do the talking. - C117 lines
You stressed it in the seminar, first day.
Clifford explains the conDeathtrap · 1982It sounds like a writing lesson while quietly recapping how the whole con was built. - C19 lines
It all started last summer.
From Cable to St. Mary'sSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959She turns a family collapse into a tidy chronology, and the calm is the cruelest part. - C14 lines
Conversation ended there.
The hearing rewriteOppenheimer · 2023He first says Chevalier was not fishing, then admits he should have reported it. Flat, careful, and already a file. - C15 lines
Say all we done is show the world that democracy isn't chaos.
A defense of messy democracySpielberg · 2017Three rising claims turn a noisy people into a union still worth aspiring toward.