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
- B25 lines
Dear Hillary, if you're still mad at me, you're gonna love this letter.
CC's letter to HillaryBeaches · 1988The letter voice turns disaster into comedy, which is how she survives it. - B213 lines
I've done things, man. I
Craig's confessionThis Is the End · 2013He starts with a bar fight and ends with an eyeball, never asking for forgiveness. - B24 lines
You can't accept pure love? You can't accept Debbie?
Hobby as evidenceknocked-up-2007 · 2007The questions end by using fantasy baseball as proof he will not take her love. - B26 lines
When I had my hysterectomy...
Roberta's boastAbout Schmidt · 2002It bends every detail back into praise for the boy she raised. - B121 lines
You know, it's funny. loan see your daddies' faces in you.
Fergie on the cathedralThe Town · 2010The speech moves from old fighters to a rigged insider and lands on one building, tightening as it goes. - B26 lines
This is the Zodiac speaking.
Pricing his own headZodiac · 2007Mild curiosity about the bounty, then a cartoon denial of the bomb. - B27 lines
Next time you see me, I'll be in a Rolls Royce...
Hildy's farewell speechHis Girl Friday · 1940She jokes about cars and success, and the bitterness underneath is the real goodbye. - B26 lines
Now look, Walter. You can't be sure of killing a man...
Keyes's theoryDouble Indemnity · 1944He walks from doubt to the only method, making a murder sound like a procedure. - B25 lines
They had bad skin and wore too much makeup. They didn't look very good.
Sizing up the wivesGoodFellas · 1990Skin, makeup and clothes pile into a verdict on a whole way of living. - B25 lines
You're too easy on yourself. Don't you see?
Isaac's moral lectureManhattan · 1979Five sentences build from small self-deception to public betrayal without pausing for breath. - B14 lines
She sends her spirit on me in church;
Abigail's AccusationThe Crucible · 2014Four short clauses pile up spirit, prayer and blood until the charge sounds rehearsed. - C128 lines
I thought you were one woman with sense, but you're like all the rest of them.
The captain's farewellThe Ghost and Mrs. Muir · 1947One long speech moves from reproach to blessing to goodbye, closing the whole story. - C16 lines
Neutrons smash into nucleus,
The atmosphere calculationOppenheimer · 2023He walks from neutrons hitting a nucleus to the end of the world, like reading a formula as doom. - B25 lines
I just made something unexpected
Isabela grows something of her ownEncanto · 2021She sings from a crooked new plant all the way to it's mine, and the perfect act splits in the melody. - B27 lines
Can I just explain myself? I didn't want Nikki to think that I was associated
Tiffany's outburstSilver Linings Playbook · 2012It builds from self-justification to accusation, landing one final verdict on Pat. - B24 lines
Happy birthday. I've been carrying this around all night.
The gift he over-explainsHusbands and Wives · 1992The more he swears it is not a pass, the more the music box sounds like one. - B24 lines
I have loved you from the minute I saw you.
The confession in the letterLolita · 1962In three lines she moves from love to loneliness to possession, then stops cold. - B16 lines
I'm here from the, uh, Department of Noise.
Ralph the noise inspectorRalph Breaks the Internet · 2018The lie keeps growing until the department name trips over itself. - B26 lines
A couple of years ago,
Prasak's old caseBreach · 2007It builds from a quiet 'years ago' into the weight of a hunt that never ended. - C14 lines
I can't listen to this anymore.
The amendment as cureSpielberg · 2017He stops the quarrel, then makes slavery the illness and the amendment the only cure. - B131 lines
I have so much to tell you. I don't know where to start.
Masha's lonely confessionThe King of Comedy · 1982She moves from wine glasses to wanting to be someone else, exposing a loneliness she cannot name. - B24 lines
If you intend to keep your word, then keep it.
Rearden sets his termsAtlas Shrugged: Part I · 2011Four short turns move from a promise to a break, and the unfinished last line cuts deepest. - B14 lines
The quote goes, ''How happy is the blameless vestal's lot?
Mary reads Pope's verseEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · 2004Read line by line, the verse shifts from showing off to a quiet, private confession. - B23 lines
For you see, if you do not find her and fix things,
The ugly-gets-uglier warningBarbie · 2023Ugly, weirder, then the last cut is aimed at her own face.