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
- B210 lines
Life sometimes takes very strange twists and turns, and we're not responsible for our feelings.
Jane's marriage confessionDeconstructing Harry · 1997She dresses up being left as fate, and the calm delivery is what makes it sting. - 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. - B16 lines
I can't. We need to see this concert.
Mei’s why-bother speechTurning Red · 2022Short lines stack: I never ask, they still don’t trust us, so what’s left. The tantrum becomes a thesis. - 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. - B212 lines
And finally, we got Zooey.
Sydney's engagement toastI Love You, Man · 2009It builds from formal praise into a crude hint, and the slow setup makes the disaster land harder. - B210 lines
Oh, god. I don't even know where to start.
Amanda on her marriageBlue Jay · 2016She starts unsure and ends swept up, and the one-week-on rhythm carries the whole speech. - B24 lines
The first thing we're going to need is a lot of pictures.
Let the hacking beginThe Social Network · 2010He lists the photos he does not have, then fires the starting gun. - B25 lines
I have something to say.
Mr. Green's confessionClue · 1985He seizes the floor, admits his secret, and admits why he can never let it out. - C17 lines
In order to pay your debt to humanity...
Usual week, this time twoTooth Fairy · 2010Naming one week as the normal term makes two weeks sound like a calculated ruling. - 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. - B18 lines
TV knob clicking: Well, theater lovers, there is bad news tonight.
The critic's verdictDeathtrap · 1982The verdict builds from bad sets to public shame, slow and lethal. - B24 lines
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain.
The lighting-glitch PACome from Away · 2021She names the crisis, then trades it for lights, four lines that pin the cabin down. - B26 lines
It's the case of Emily French. You've probably seen reports in the press.
Mayhew lays out the caseWitness for the Prosecution · 1957He moves from the victim to the evidence web, laying the whole case out like a board. - 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
I highly recommend it to you, by the way.
A pitch for the dinner5 to 7 · 2014The smoother her sales pitch, the more the invitation feels like a trap. - C15 lines
The emperor of Byzantium, when he received people in audience...
The Byzantine Throne SpeechSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959She builds a throne out of words just to walk down the stairs. - C119 lines
You two are divorced, so love failed.
Four-point parental takedownSLC Punk · 1998The points get meaner in order, turning rebellion, love, and politics back on the people who offered them. - B24 lines
Janet, I want to help you. That's why we're here.
The counsellor turns it aroundAnother Year · 2010She reassures Janet, then reverses the scene until Janet answers her own question. - B24 lines
She's so fat, I had to roll her in flour and look for the wet spot.
Joe's fat-wife routine under a gunThe Last Boy Scout · 1991Telling jokes at gunpoint turns terror into comedy, and the timing is what makes it work. - B24 lines
Dear CC, we're spending the summer at our beach house.
Hillary's summer letterBeaches · 1988Four short lines build a quiet summer and end on a small confession of loneliness.