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
- B210 lines
He'll show. He's got to show. Sometime, somewhere, they've got to meet.
the trolley car theoryDouble Indemnity · 1944It builds from a meeting to a one-way ride, tightening like a verdict. - B14 lines
and that he and the guys made bucks hustling while other guys...
In defense of the menGoodFellas · 1990She grants them no schooling, then explains the shortcuts as plain survival. - B25 lines
You know, someday we're gonna be like him.
Isaac's mortality riffManhattan · 1979He turns someone else's decay into a joke about his own reputation, and it lands because it is sincere. - B18 lines
I want to open myself!
Tituba's ConfessionThe Crucible · 2014Eight short lines turn confession into prayer, brightening as she lists what she did. - B25 lines
It was all a game I made up,
Lucy's dream confessionThe Ghost and Mrs. Muir · 1947It drifts from a light disclaimer into a quiet confession, gathering weight line by line. - C14 lines
Conversation ended there.
The hearing rewriteOppenheimer · 2023He first says Chevalier was not fishing, then admits he should have reported it. Flat, careful, and already a file. - B27 lines
I will never be good enough for you.
Never good enoughEncanto · 2021Enough stacks until the whole family is doomed, then she flips Bruno's exile back onto Abuela. - B16 lines
Come here. What are you gonna do about that song? Huh?
The cop talking Pat downSilver Linings Playbook · 2012He keeps shrinking the fear, repeating no song until Pat can breathe again. - B25 lines
...the fact of your remaining would only mean one thing: that you....
Her case for his stayingLolita · 1962She builds a conditional case that turns staying into a proposal he never agreed to. - B19 lines
No, wait, listen. We aren't normally car thieves.
Ralph cries his way through the alibiRalph Breaks the Internet · 2018The more he explains, the guiltier the friendship-and-fix-it story sounds. - B220 lines
Dear friends, thank you for the $50,000.
Letter to his handlerBreach · 2007It never pleads; it negotiates, warns, and quietly asks for a way out. - C17 lines
Spielberg: I made the choice because I wanted people to say "Munich" is the context for problems that exist in today's world and basically are threatening to all of us.
Peace the hard waySpielberg · 2017He shuts the hiding place, then offers peace only as costly work done inside yourself. - B213 lines
Let's do something crazy tonight. Just get insane. I wanna be crazy!
Rupert's crazy-night speechThe King of Comedy · 1982The repeated chants about having fun build a manic rhythm that plays as both act and breakdown. - B24 lines
To Colorado and the New Renaissance
Wyatt's toastAtlas Shrugged: Part I · 2011Four short toasts build from a place to an age, turning dinner into a manifesto. - B14 lines
We have a history.
Howard's confessionEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · 2004He confesses while retreating, and the half-sentences make the truth heavier. - B15 lines
I don’t know exactly what you meant with all of those little quips,
Barbie grades the catcallsBarbie · 2023She unpacks the puns like homework, then announces they have no genitals. - B15 lines
What happened, I was walking along the street, minding my own business,
Da Mayor tells what happenedDo the Right Thing · 1989He walks the crowd through it in plain steps and ends with a number that settles the argument. - B24 lines
and how I always regretted not goin' over and talkin' to her.
What Sean does not regretGood Will Hunting · 1997It lists what he gave up and refuses to call any of it a loss. - C123 lines
This habitat was the subject of the series The Blue Planet, which we were filming in the late '90s.
From wonder to a dying oceanDavid Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet · 2020Wonder comes first, intact and ancient; then empty nets and a faltering cycle take it apart. - B15 lines
[choir vocalizes] -Now, listen, brothers and sisters.
Gospel holds the gateThe Christmas Chronicles: Part Two · 2020Double negatives and rhyme turn a canceled-flight riot into a choir the room can join. - C14 lines
The mythical overlay is so enormous...
The hundred-word darethe-man-from-earth-2007 · 2007It calls the myth huge and bad, calls the truth simple, then dares the room to hear a faith in a hundred words. - B17 lines
You can do this. Let's go. All right, guys, listen.
Michael's final pep talkArthur the King · 2024Short commands stack the pressure until the race becomes the only thing left to do. - B13 lines
And how is that my fault?
Sharon's canopy speechSigned, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made · 2021She throws the blame back, then turns a tent into a locked holy room. - B15 lines
Yes, I am. This is the day. Here's the chart from my astrologer.
Norma's astrology speechSunset Boulevard · 1950She stacks chart, signs and conjunction until superstition sounds like faith.