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
- B19 lines
Hey, look, this is nothing to laugh at.
the teacher's lectureBad Boys · 1983It moves from stopping the laughter to handing out work, cornering the boys. - B25 lines
If I could take everything that was good,
Rocky's last wishCreed · 2015He trades extra years for one picture of Marie and calls that a happy death. - B24 lines
Now, you create a distraction.
Tucker's planTucker and Dale vs. Evil · 2010He hands out the plan in clipped beats, calm and absurd at the same time. - B26 lines
Peter Coyote: When Steven works with children, he brings a kind of "let's play" feeling.
On working with childrenSpielberg · 2017The description climbs from a game, to a clean signal, to the moment his eyes open. - B24 lines
And it was great PR for this company,
James defends the pulloutAtlas Shrugged: Part I · 2011Four tidy lines of reasoning collapse into one line of pure self-interest. - B25 lines
You know, if a patient doesn't feel safe enough to trust you, then he won't be honest with you.
Sean on trustGood Will Hunting · 1997He states the sound principle, then flips it into a dark joke within a breath. - B242 lines
I was sleeping in their bed the night they went out.
Adam's account of the crashAll of Us Strangers · 2023The pauses and plain words carry years of held-back grief. - B24 lines
I am sorry to be the one to tell you this, but no one is keeping anything from you, okay?
Pam's defense speechBad Education · 2019Her stacked reasons and because-clauses turn a deflection into a performance. - B25 lines
Why do you grow them?
Ouiser's Southern creedSteel Magnolias · 1989It builds a mock code of Southern womanhood and delivers it as unanswerable fact. - B29 lines
But you know something?
The speech for the sucker who still believesMy Fellow Americans · 1996He starts with a small man’s résumé, then throws the oath back at both of them. - B24 lines
The village houses over a million elves.
The output bragThe Christmas Chronicles: Part Two · 2020He stacks every courier and factory on earth, then beats them with one day. - B213 lines
Dearly beloved, when Rupert here was a student at Clifton High School...
The imagined national apologyThe King of Comedy · 1982It borrows the cadence of a wedding and a broadcast to turn one man's grudge into a national rite. - B210 lines
Hold on. No fucking way.
Carl's explosive rant over the carFargo · 1996It builds from a flat refusal to a demand for a clean account, all in one breath. - B223 lines
Listen, I'm not taking any more chances.
the order to shut it all downUnited 93 · 2006From refusing more risks to declaring war on someone, the speech turns an emergency into a turning point. - B18 lines
Dorothy Vallens is married, to a man named Don.
The case laid outBlue Velvet · 1986He turns a night of snooping into a cold chain of cause and effect. - B14 lines
You know surfer is not even my job. - I know.
Ken explains his jobBarbie · 2023He rules out surfer and lifeguard with a straight face, and only beach is left. - B15 lines
You want brothers on the wall?
Sal defends his wallDo the Right Thing · 1989Sal turns a question back on the customer and draws his line in five short, rising beats. - B14 lines
I'm trying to fucking make this all work for you.
Selling the comebackUncut Gems · 2019Howard wraps fear in NBA money talk until the pitch itself proves he is trapped. - 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. - B26 lines
Well, it just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead.
A scale for deathThe Princess Bride · 1987He splits death in two, then cashes the lesson as loose change. - B25 lines
I'll tell you what you're doing, milady.
Anna's rallying speechDownton Abbey · 2019It builds from house to village to county, then lands on one image. - B27 lines
When are you going to do something about that terrible furniture in your prison?
The furniture phone rantA Shot in the Dark · 1964He builds a lecture from a question to a closing rule, all over furniture. - B25 lines
Fuck if you shed a tear for that piece of shit you idolize for no goddamn fucking reason.
the brother's blow-upA Star Is Born · 2018Five straight accusations build from the father to Jack himself, each one harder than the last. - B113 lines
Dear John,
The mother's letterSigned, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made · 2021She writes I miss you, then leukemia, and leaves the fear in the pause.