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
I know it's tough,
Hand it to the heroWreck-It Ralph · 2012He names the pain, then asks Ralph to carry it like honor. - B116 lines
Finally, out of the darkness, my bus arrives at the Salvation Army camp.
Opening with a verse numberCome from Away · 2021They will not leave the seats until a shared Bible number does the talking. - B26 lines
Well, sir. Here we are again.
Grandpa's odd graceYou Can't Take It with You · 1938He reports a family's ordinary life like a progress note to heaven, and the solemn tone is the joke. - B213 lines
I'd like to pray to You for a second.
Jonah's prayerThis Is the End · 2013It prays in dead-serious church cadence for a friend's death, absurd and venomous at once. - B24 lines
Fog in the channel is treacherous.
The captain on the seaThe Ghost and Mrs. Muir · 1947He turns fog, fear and honesty into one small creed about how to live. - C19 lines
I'm only allowed to let in 5% black people. He said that. 5%.
The quota spiralknocked-up-2007 · 2007The count gets more absurd, and the apology never stops the next dig. - B25 lines
Can I tell you something? - I'm listening.
Warren's confessionAbout Schmidt · 2002One comparison and one number undo forty-two years in a single breath. - B18 lines
You know...
Doug's pitch to leaveThe Town · 2010It moves from a life observation to an invitation, casual on the surface and moving underneath. - B111 lines
Ay, Pedro.
Abuela's night prayerEncanto · 2021Crack, dying miracle, lose home again: she stacks the fear until Pedro has to hear it. - C115 lines
So I shall change my way of collecting slaves.
New rules, then the blue pigsZodiac · 2007He writes murder as office hours, then baby-talks the cops about buses and booboos. - C18 lines
And so into this little tortured mind...
Hildy's story read aloudHis Girl Friday · 1940She turns Earl's motive into an elegy, and the calm sentences carry the irony. - B26 lines
One night, Bobby Vinton sent us champagne. There was nothing like it.
Henry recalls the glory daysGoodFellas · 1990Six calm sentences paint the glamour he lived in, and quietly hide what he missed. - C16 lines
Listen. "He was given to fits of rage,
The memoir's indictmentManhattan · 1979The list keeps tightening until his deepest fear is dismissed as pure vanity. - B223 lines
Mr. Norton, the first thing that struck me was that suicide angle.
The suicide statisticsDouble Indemnity · 1944Keyes buries Norton under actuarial detail, then turns the numbers into a verdict. - B25 lines
Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated.
Hale's Exorcism SpeechThe Crucible · 2014The list builds an unseen cosmos, then lands on a vow to crush the Devil. - B14 lines
For now we see through a glass,
the funeral readingBelfast · 2021The old words slow the scene and set death against a longer view of time. - B16 lines
Oompa Loompa Doompadee Do I've got another puzzle for you Oompa Loompa Doompada Dee If you are wise you'll listen to me What do you get from a glut of TV?
Oompa Loompa TV songWilly Wonka & the Chocolate Factory · 1971A rhyming number that turns too much television into a comic warning. - C12 lines
We've all heard about Einstein
The Einstein-letter pushbackOppenheimer · 2023He uses a public rumor to name the secret, then lands on his own people in camps. - B113 lines
Well, Reverend, I don't understand that.
Gertrude's defenseAn American Crime · 2007She slides from playing confused to blaming the victim without ever pausing. - B229 lines
Um, and this... my father's business partner...
Rain's confessionHusbands and Wives · 1992Three forbidden affairs in one breath, until it sounds like a plot and Gabe just sits there. - B24 lines
Pat, the silver lining thing is yours.
The doctor's pitchSilver Linings Playbook · 2012Instead of lecturing, the doctor hands Pat his own words back and lets the benefits do the arguing. - B28 lines
I could stay there another hundred years, and still just be an afterthought.
Hanssen's retirement lamentBreach · 2007Dry self-mockery builds to a final line that refuses any defense. - B24 lines
Welcome back to the search bar, madam.
Search-bar greetingRalph Breaks the Internet · 2018Breakfast burrito small talk, then the next ticket, like a real help desk. - B18 lines
It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year Notice how he emphasizes this word.
A Poe lesson out loudLolita · 1962He performs the poem and dissects it at the same time, turning a lesson into an invitation.