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
- B226 lines
Oh, yeah. I know what I gotta show you guys.
The pap smear pitchSlacker · 1990A grisly sales pitch that moves from hype to rejection to a face-saving exit. - B27 lines
So I came to New York and moved in with my sister and her husband, a cab driver.
How Fran ended up in the elevatorThe Apartment · 1960Her flat account of school and a failed typing test lands on the elevator, where the whole affair begins. - B26 lines
Suppose you go on home and start packing.
Linus sends David offSabrina · 1954He runs through the arrangements like a memo and closes with a single Goodbye that ends more than the trip. - B211 lines
Had lunch with the wise men today.
The tax speechTraining Day · 2001He justifies a robbery as routine duty, and the calm delivery makes it worse. - B212 lines
From now on,we are enemies.
Salieri's vowAmadeus · 1984From enemies to as far as I am able, the vow turns jealousy into a holy war. - B18 lines
I was working as a typist for the CIA,
the CIA how-we-met storyBuffalo '66 · 1998The details pile up until the lie plays like a little film, and the family buys every frame. - B215 lines
Matuschek and Company, good morning.
Pepi's joke on the switchboardThe Shop Around the Corner · 1940He answers the shop like a clerk, then piles the gag until the whole floor is in on it. - B241 lines
You done wound me up.
Friend Like MeAladdin · 2019He sings the wish contract as a restaurant order. The laugh lands, then you notice it was the manual. - B24 lines
Oh. I'm of rather a jealous nature.
Lucy on jealousySense and Sensibility · 1995She calls herself jealous, then boasts that Edward never worried her once, all in a sweet voice. - B17 lines
I'm trying to comfort him...
The name he gave a dying manReservoir Dogs · 1992He walks from comfort to disbelief to surrender, weighing a rule against a dying man. - C17 lines
I was still on the yacht, and the anchor broke loose.
Sugar's dream at seaSome Like It Hot · 1959She turns longing into a list of shipboard chores, and the sweetness makes the later betrayal worse. - B25 lines
You must know it's very important I get out of Casablanca.
Laszlo's appealCasablanca · 1943He turns one man's escape into a cause for thousands, which makes the request hard to dismiss. - B26 lines
Living on the Wall just wears you down.
The toll of wall lifeThe Dawn Wall · 2017Short stacked sentences list the hardships and slowly sink the listener into fatigue. - C15 lines
Winds blow ships from Africa to the Indies naturally, as if the route were blessed by God.
The defence of the tradeAmazing Grace · 2006He stacks up arguments from wind to fish, dressing profit as providence. - B28 lines
...at Out of Town News and picked up that copy of Popular Electronics magazine
Gates on starting MicrosoftThe Social Network · 2010A newsstand magazine, a dorm, start now: he reopens the second half of the myth. - B211 lines
I just always have felt understood by them.
Amanda on her greyhoundsBlue Jay · 2016Her voice slows as she turns a rescue into a story about being understood. - B14 lines
and now I will tell about the sixth house, about your health.
the health readingBe Here Now · 2015It stacks chart details into a slow build, then lands on one grim verdict. - B26 lines
I think that you're thinking that after last night...
Myra's million-dollar motiveDeathtrap · 1982A joke slides into hard numbers until murder sounds like simple arithmetic. - B25 lines
Gave it a sweetheart neckline because you're my sweetheart.
Coronation-gown pitchMinions · 2015Herb sells the sweetheart neckline, the cinch, the armor, and the nuclear sheen as one long compliment. - B219 lines
I look around, I look around, I see a lot of new faces.
middle children sermonFight Club · 1999The list of missing wars turns into a name for wasted lives. - B24 lines
My lord, I must object.
objection speechWitness for the Prosecution · 1957One objection doubles as a grammar lesson, exposing the gender hidden in murderer. - C19 lines
It all started last summer.
From Cable to St. Mary'sSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959She turns a family collapse into a tidy chronology, and the calm is the cruelest part. - B26 lines
Goddamn, I'm really glad to see you, Jimmy.
The boss remembers JimmyThe Last Boy Scout · 1991He sounds nostalgic while quietly reopening every wound in Jimmy's career. - B26 lines
What do you need me for? What?
John's breakup speechBeaches · 1988A run of questions cools into resignation, ending on the flat line that seals it.