Movie monologues, one line at a time
1,969 real monologues from 153 films. Play a line, pause, say it back.
- 1Full speech: hear it once
- 2Shadow: repeat each line
- 3Blind: listen, then reveal
- B19 lines
I know, Miss Chauhan. But, you see, Miss Chauhan...
The school excuse callBeautiful Thing · 1996She piles detail on detail on the phone until the excuse sounds rehearsed. - B124 lines
Long ago,
How the miracle beganEncanto · 2021Flight, candle, living house: she folds a catastrophe into the family myth. - B24 lines
Nonsense, you've got an old-fashioned idea divorces last forever.
Walter on divorceHis Girl Friday · 1940He talks divorce down to a few mumbled words, then lands a line about a bond that cannot change. - B110 lines
To me...
opening voice-overGoodFellas · 1990A child's calm delivery makes the neighborhood's code feel natural and seductive. - B24 lines
But in all the years that we've been married
Yale's confessionManhattan · 1979He moves from excuses to self-disgust, then insists this time is different. - B15 lines
Vallejo Police Department. -I want to report a double murder.
A flat call: two deadZodiac · 2007No name. Miles, a brown car, a gun type. Traffic, except it is a double murder. - B25 lines
A guy that walks into a good looking dame's front parlor and says: "Good afternoon, I sell accident insurance on husbands.
Neff's bitter self-portraitDouble Indemnity · 1944He paints himself as a predator, then turns the mirror on her. - B29 lines
Reverend Parris, I have laid seven babies un-baptized in the earth.
Ann Putnam's AccusationThe Crucible · 2014She moves from buried babies to Tituba's magic, turning private grief into a public charge. - B117 lines
Not since the tragic day that Willy Wonka locked it.
Grandpa's factory legendWilly Wonka & the Chocolate Factory · 1971It builds from the locked gates to the reopened factory, then hooks the listener with one unanswered question. - B15 lines
Gluten's a vague term.
Seth on glutenThis Is the End · 2013He turns a buzzword into a mock lecture, half joke and half swagger. - C14 lines
Quantum physics is not a step forward,
Bohr opens the quantum lectureOppenheimer · 2023Door, peering, the world inside: a lecture that sounds like a reveal. - C18 lines
She taught me herself
Enola's reading listEnola Holmes · 2020She stacks books until self-teaching becomes the point, then owns it. - B211 lines
It's me. You're living with her, aren't you? You've moved in together.
The cohabitation callHusbands and Wives · 1992Each line tightens the charge that Jack planned this. The swearing keeps time. - B14 lines
That's when I was an x-ray technician and I had my ADD and my anxiety.
Pat on meds and hairSilver Linings Playbook · 2012He circles from drugs to hair and back, and the rambling itself shows how his mind jumps. - B19 lines
Random thoughts...
Journal by the seaEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · 2004The scattered journal voice moves from guilt to small chores, like a real mind wandering. - B213 lines
You know, this house is roomy and cool. You see how cool it is.
The host's wild pitchLolita · 1962He escalates from offering rooms to offering executions, burying his fear in a torrent of sales talk. - B16 lines
Why would I wonder if there's more to life when the life I got is perfect?
Ralph's enough speechRalph Breaks the Internet · 2018He walks from paper-zero to best friend like it is a love letter, not a TED talk. - B26 lines
You're being tasked to Headquarters, where you'll be riding the desk of an agent named Robert Hanssen.
The handler's briefingBreach · 2007It stacks titles and history, then drops one warning, building a whole person. - B110 lines
See what love the father has given us...
A sermon on belongingAn American Crime · 2007It builds from wonder to belonging in short steps, giving everyone in the pew a place. - B119 lines
Welcome to Rainford, gentlemen.
Daniels' orientation speechBad Boys · 1983It moves from a polite welcome to hard rules, each line tightening his grip. - B17 lines
Your father was special
Rocky's training termsCreed · 2015He grants the bloodline, then prices the work: knockdowns, get-ups, and nothing overnight. - B15 lines
This story happened right here, right in these very woods.
Chad's campfire storyTucker and Dale vs. Evil · 2010He grounds the tale in the ground under their feet, then withholds the scare to the last word. - B210 lines
Spielberg: I really wanted my childhood to be sort of the pie-in-the-sky, Norman Rockwell American Dream.
the home he wantedSpielberg · 2017He fills in the magazine family first, then lets the cracks show. - B25 lines
Other people are human.
James's emotional accusationAtlas Shrugged: Part I · 2011Five short lines escalate a business quarrel into a verdict on his sister's soul.