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
- B24 lines
May it please you, my lord. Members of the jury,
prosecution's openingWitness for the Prosecution · 1957It opens with courtesy, then slips in a barb about the absent rival. - C18 lines
I know it sounds hopelessly vain to say...
The Famous CoupleSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959She calls it vanity, then savours every detail of being watched. - B25 lines
You think you're so fucking cool, don't you?
Milo's threatThe Last Boy Scout · 1991The repetition slows the threat down until it feels like a blade being drawn. - B15 lines
I don't give a shit about the sun!
Leona's truth speechBeaches · 1988Five unbroken lines turn a small lie about sunshine into a lifetime of resentment. - B110 lines
Sad as it is, Vanellope cannot be allowed to race.
Candy's shutdown chainWreck-It Ralph · 2012If, then, when. He walks a child's race all the way to a dead arcade. - B13 lines
There are hundreds of suitcases.
Bonnie finds the animals in the holdCome from Away · 2021Suitcases, barking, fasting, no water: four beats and the hold is already an emergency. - B26 lines
You'll pay every cent just like anybody else.
The collector's warningYou Can't Take It with You · 1938He piles warning on warning, and the harder he pushes the funnier he looks to the room. - B27 lines
Everything I've been doing has just been a cry for help.
the cry for help confessionThis Is the End · 2013It slides from accusation into self-mockery, mixing tears with a crude joke. - B28 lines
It wasn't merely to save the house for me.
The captain explains his bookThe Ghost and Mrs. Muir · 1947He moves from saving the house to shaming the landsmen, and the anger keeps climbing. - C112 lines
I'm not gonna go to the end of the fucking line.
The doorway rantknocked-up-2007 · 2007The speech climbs from a refused queue to an attack on borrowed power, each line sharper. - B26 lines
Well, you put a pretty good face on things...
Vicki's observationAbout Schmidt · 2002It climbs from compliment to verdict, showing how softness can corner a person. - C123 lines
Now, if it were up to me...
Frawley's ultimatumThe Town · 2010From a hypothetical to a sentence, the calm escalation frightens more than shouting. - B14 lines
I was looking out for the family.
Mirabel's defenseEncanto · 2021She claims the family, measures herself against the sisters, then Whatever cuts her own throat. - B26 lines
This is the Zodiac speaking.
The Zodiac speakingZodiac · 2007He scolds the park search in a host's voice, then writes children as targets. - B24 lines
I tell you he just sat there talking to me all night.
Mollie's account of that nightHis Girl Friday · 1940She dismantles the scandal piece by piece, and her calm makes it harder to dismiss. - B27 lines
When deliveries are made at the front door...
Henry on milking the place dryGoodFellas · 1990It lays out theft, resale and arson as a tidy business process, calm and chilling. - B24 lines
What am I doing in this relationship anyway? My phone never stops ringing.
Mary's late-night reckoningManhattan · 1979She moves from boast to self-doubt and ends the speech with a gesture, not a word. - B216 lines
Nothing had slipped, nothing had been overlooked.
Neff's confessionDouble Indemnity · 1944He boasts of a flawless plan and then admits, line by line, that he is coming apart. - B24 lines
No, no. Now let me instruct you.
Hale Sets His TermsThe Crucible · 2014He rejects superstition, insists on evidence, then locks them into accepting a clean result. - B27 lines
Oh, that puts me in mind of a great wee system we had in the old days for paying the rent.
The rent schemeBelfast · 2021He tells a story about a street robbing its own rent man as if it were civic duty. - B16 lines
And so I said: " Come and live with me in peace and safety...
The Oompa Loompa origin storyWilly Wonka & the Chocolate Factory · 1971Quoted speech and invented beast names turn a business deal into a fairy tale. - C13 lines
You think that I tell them about your politics.
Lawrence's tap warningOppenheimer · 2023Rearview glass, then static on the phone: surveillance sold as ordinary lab talk. - A25 lines
She needs to be punished, Paula.
Gertrude's cover storyAn American Crime · 2007She justifies punishment, then coaches each child on the lie, command and cover story in one breath. - C18 lines
Oh, yes, I do. It's the second law of thermodynamics.
The marriage-rot confessionHusbands and Wives · 1992She coats a curse in thermodynamics, then twists the story until she walks in on Jack.