Movie monologues, one line at a time
2,019 real monologues from 158 films. Play a line, pause, say it back.
- 1Full speech: hear it once
- 2Shadow: repeat each line
- 3Blind: listen, then reveal
- B16 lines
Wouldn't it be incredible if, after you passed on...
the pitch for a memoirCan You Ever Forgive Me? · 2018It sells immortality through one sly image, letters still sold after you are gone. - B28 lines
Anyway, it was meant to be. Comes the hour, comes the man.
The train to London24 Hour Party People · 2002He narrates a shambolic trip as if fate had scripted a coup. - B29 lines
In Tucson. It was, like, a hundred degrees all the time.
The bandanna explainedThe End of the Tour · 2015Wallace turns a silly accessory into an honest picture of his anxiety. - C14 lines
Most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable beauty...
Cesario's rehearsed speechTwelfth Night · 2012He opens with stacked praise, then admits the whole speech is rehearsed and he is nervous. - B224 lines
The thing is, the media's trying to hold up this whole one-party, two-faction system...
a rant on voting numbersSlacker · 1990He drills 54 percent down to 18, turning arithmetic into an argument that ends by scaring the winners. - B28 lines
I don't know what you did to that girl...
The doctor's parting warningThe Apartment · 1960It moves from blame to warning, and ends on the plainest piece of advice. - B24 lines
This is what you do on your very first day in Paris.
A first day in ParisSabrina · 1954He builds Paris out of rain, a taxi and chestnut trees, one sensation at a time. - B27 lines
Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way.
The Sheep and the WolfTraining Day · 2001It builds from stray bullets to sheep and wolves until cruelty sounds like duty. - B25 lines
My heart was filling up...
Salieri's hatredAmadeus · 1984From a filling heart to violent thoughts, a few lines show a man turning. - B17 lines
So basically, what I'm asking you to do is, I'm asking you to come there and make me look good.
the deal he offersBuffalo '66 · 1998It slides from looking good to a death threat and back to best friends. - B18 lines
To whom it may concern..
Matuschek reads the letterThe Shop Around the Corner · 1940The stock phrases pile up until praise itself sounds like an eviction notice. - B15 lines
And it is good to be me...
Playing the princessAladdin · 2019Once the tea names her, he overacts: gold, baths, a tiger that needs washing, until the joke runs out of room. - B25 lines
I knew a lady very like your sister...
the colonel's warningSense and Sensibility · 1995He pleads through another woman's ruin, and the calm telling is what makes it land. - B212 lines
He's not so bad, Burt.
A sister remembers HarryDeconstructing Harry · 1997A sister's mixed tenderness and grievance, delivered secondhand by the son. - B27 lines
What the fuck am I doing here, man?
White's regret speechReservoir Dogs · 1992He turns a single bad feeling into a full confession of his own failure. - B29 lines
I only come ashore twice a day, when the tide goes out.
Junior on shells and oilSome Like It Hot · 1959He starts with the tide and ends with an oil empire, never raising his voice. - B25 lines
I have a proposition for whoever has those letters. I'll handle the entire transaction.
Ferrari's propositionCasablanca · 1943He lays out his cut, the risk and the extras like a contract, and never blinks. - B26 lines
My name is Tom Evans. I've been for many years photographing climbers on El Cap.
the photographer's vigilThe Dawn Wall · 2017The photographer introduces himself, then builds quiet awe into a declaration of witness. - C14 lines
I've spent 18 months being torn apart by you in the House, Mr Wilberforce.
Fox switches sidesAmazing Grace · 2006He turns eighteen months of rivalry into a joke, then seals the switch with a drink. - B212 lines
People came to Facemash in a stampede, right?
Mark's pitch in the coldThe Social Network · 2010He splits the traffic, names recognition, kills dating, and lifts the whole campus onto a site they would run. - B17 lines
In order to help you understand what happened, I shall need to take you
Wadsworth's reconstructionClue · 1985He stages the whole night again, placing every guest exactly where they stood. - B26 lines
I had a very strange mortality moment when I looked at them and I was like this eight hundred books here, and even if I...
The mortality mathBlue Jay · 2016She turns a shelf of unread books into a quiet measure of her remaining life. - B210 lines
To me, it's very simple.
The treatment planBe Here Now · 2015He turns a frightening relapse into three plain steps, and the calm is what steadies the room. - B26 lines
Have you thought about collaborating on the play on Deathtrap?
Myra's gentle pitchDeathtrap · 1982She turns collaboration into a favour, and soft persuasion proves more tempting than any threat.