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
- B14 lines
Twenty-two years we've been married.
The betrayed husband's confessionThe Shop Around the Corner · 1940He counts the years of the marriage, then admits she would not grow old with him. - B111 lines
You see, I was once like you.
The vizier’s recruitmentAladdin · 2019He starts as a fellow thief, ends as a kingmaker, and folds the dream into a deal. - B26 lines
Were I rich enough, I would pull down Combe Magna...
Willoughby's cottage vowSense and Sensibility · 1995He would tear down his own house to copy hers; the extravagance is exactly what charms her. - B214 lines
I'm more powerful than you because I'm a bigger sinner.
A catalogue of sinsDeconstructing Harry · 1997He recites his sins like a resume, proud and damned at the same time. - B25 lines
I don't wanna kill anybody, but if I gotta get out that door and you're in my way, one way or the other you're getting out of my way.
White's line in the sandReservoir Dogs · 1992He draws a line and shows exactly what crossing it costs. - B213 lines
Tell her I'd like her to have a little supper with me on my yacht, after the show tonight.
Osgood's phone invitationSome Like It Hot · 1959He sweetens the invitation detail by detail until the politeness itself is the joke. - B15 lines
I was just telling Monsieur Laszlo that unfortunately I'm not able to help him.
Ferrari's pitchCasablanca · 1943He builds himself up before delivering the refusal, so the no sounds like a favor. - B29 lines
He was thoughtful and considerate, but from the beginning,
A girlfriend's accountThe Dawn Wall · 2017She narrates her own slow sidelining without anger, then ends on an unanswered question. - C18 lines
That smell is the smell of death.
The smell of deathAmazing Grace · 2006Two sets of repetition tighten the room until the last line becomes a creed. - B23 lines
Ma'am, I know you've done your homework,
Mark buys the streetThe Social Network · 2010He pretends money is small, then drops a street and a ping-pong room on the table. - C17 lines
In the dark, the murderer ran across the hall to the study,
the killer's routeClue · 1985The whole route lands in one breath, quickening toward the cellar. - B110 lines
The winds of change are fucking blowing tonight.
Reading the old letterBlue Jay · 2016Broken phrases carry the teenage voice all the way to its embarrassing end. - B27 lines
Andy is literally on hoof running from...
Vashti on Andy's searchBe Here Now · 2015She moves from his endless search to her own hidden wish for a quick fix, honest and unguarded. - B24 lines
What I should do is beat the fat bastard on the head...
Sidney's murder fantasyDeathtrap · 1982The mace, the hole and the stolen credit roll out as casually as a shopping list. - B14 lines
One of England's most famous myths has become a reality
The news crowns a new kingMinions · 2015A newsreader recites a playground yank as if Arthur had returned. - B211 lines
Gentlemen!
eight fight club rulesFight Club · 1999Repetition turns a secret into a liturgy the room can chant. - B25 lines
I would like to be a good writer.
The speech before the proposal5 to 7 · 2014He narrows from a writing dream down to one person, each short line tightening the confession. - B26 lines
That woman's up to something. But what?
the lawyer's desperate tallyWitness for the Prosecution · 1957A few short lines carry the case from suspicion to total defeat in one breath. - C19 lines
Most people's lives...
On Debris and DesperationSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959She reduces ordinary lives to litter, then lands on a borrowed phrase that flatters her own. - B28 lines
It keeps making funny noises.
Mary's catalogue of car woesAnother Year · 2010She piles one car disaster on another until the complaint becomes comic. - B26 lines
As chairman of the commission on sports gambling, I'll simply say this:
The senator's non-answerThe Last Boy Scout · 1991He answers every question and says nothing, then pivots to football. - B212 lines
I am the captain
The Industry songBeaches · 1988It turns a machine into a wife and sings a dying age with the grandeur of a war song. - B115 lines
Well, back when the arcade first opened,
Felix tells the Turbo originWreck-It Ralph · 2012Arcade rise, stolen crowd, hijack, dual shutdown: the warning arrives in the order a kid would remember it. - B15 lines
I'm looking out the window, trying to see where we are,
The captain sees how farCome from Away · 2021She has flown this sky for years; on the ground it is only black.