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
- B25 lines
Yes, I know that, but I beg you to help me now.
Beech's plea to HollowayThe Uninvited · 1944It moves from apology to plea to a strange confession, stripping the old man of his pride. - B218 lines
Well, boys, I reckon this is it.
Kong's pre-flight pep talkDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964Kong turns nuclear annihilation into a locker-room speech, and the mismatch is the joke. - B25 lines
India isn't a drawing room. We're out here to do justice and to keep the peace.
Ronny on dutyA Passage to India · 1984He builds duty into sacrifice, showing how colonial logic sounds from inside. - B16 lines
Hi, I'm President Business...
The president's morning warningThe Lego Movie · 2014Care-voice welds the rulebook and the kill order into one blessing. - B213 lines
He's got a forehead like a drive-in movie theater. He's a good shit...
The Mongo storyThere's Something About Mary · 1998The warmer the story gets, the more it exposes the man telling it. - C110 lines
In my younger and more vulnerable years...
Nick's openingThe Great Gatsby · 2013He takes his father's rule, then admits New York emptied him, then names the one man he still cannot write off. - C111 lines
Now, I want you to imagine a character.
Fletcher's film speechThe Gentlemen · 2020He turns an extortion into a film shoot and the listener into his actor. - A29 lines
Since I've been dating your mom, I don't see you putting yourself out there, bud.
Trent's ten-point lectureThe Way Way Back · 2013It slides from blame to promise, raising the pressure while sounding kind. - B26 lines
I tried to do my duty, Cooper...
Mann ConfessesInterstellar · 2014The pauses turn a duty-bound explanation into a reluctant confession. - B14 lines
You know, this doesn't define you.
Helen's pep talkArthur the King · 2024Four short pushes in a row turn sympathy into action without a single lecture. - B25 lines
... Watson, or whatever your name is, you are not in Hyde Park, with an audience of loafers.
The general's lectureThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943It corrects the name, lists the medals and quotes Napoleon, so wounded pride dresses up as authority. - B119 lines
We drove back towards Dallas and we drove to the motel.
Adams on the night's driveThe Thin Blue Line · 1988The flat account of a drive quietly nails down the last time he saw the man. - B26 lines
The new White Star liner R.M.S. Titanic is the largest vessel in the world.
Reading the soap ad aloudA Night to Remember · 1958The inflated ad copy builds the pride that the next line punctures. - C15 lines
Andy, in many ways, was someone we all knew didn't have a strong moral compass.
Narrator lays out the setupEnron: The Smartest Guys in the Room · 2005It judges him, quotes the plan, then recasts his help as a trap. - B14 lines
So many -- So many different episodes are like
David indexes the fountain hitsFriends: The Reunion · 2021He rapid-fires guitar, first kiss, umbrella — the set becomes a table of contents. - B27 lines
I can smell trouble right here in this apartment.
Stella's courtroom prophecyRear Window · 1954She plays judge and defendant at once, turning a warning into a comic scene. - C110 lines
Play it cool!
Orders to play it coolNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022She talks herself from thrill down to a fake stumble, so he will relax and talk too much. - B213 lines
Harry, remember them? Nice people.
Mary's quiet pleaNight and the City · 1950She walks him from a shared memory to a quiet plea, tightening the screw line by line. - B213 lines
Well, we recorded The Creeps...
Mark's recording-room confessionAmerican Movie · 1999He starts high and ends honest, admitting he let his own film drift. - B26 lines
You can't fire me.
Bob’s spiralThe Proposal · 2009He starts with you can’t fire me and climbs into name-calling; you can hear the panic stacking. - B28 lines
I can honestly boast that I'm banned from Crosby Street Booksellers.
Jack's proud confessionCan You Ever Forgive Me? · 2018He turns a string of bans into a boast, then lets the joke deflate itself. - B15 lines
We never found out who won that trip to space camp, because the records were lost when the gym burned down.
The judge's sentencing speechBeavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe · 2022It slides from a flimsy excuse about lost records to a grand, pompous sentence. - B24 lines
That a woman conceived me, I thank her.
A bachelor's vowMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993He thanks the woman who bore him, then turns his refusal of marriage into a final, almost religious vow. - B24 lines
I know, but I would like to tell you just like I tell the kids in my classes.
Brad explains his Tourette'sFront of the Class · 2008He turns a frightening condition into something ordinary by comparing it to a sneeze.