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
- B24 lines
You know I'm preparing the city for imminent invasion, right?
the invasion briefingJojo Rabbit · 2019It slides from serious defense talk into a cannibal rumor, and the drop is the joke. - B29 lines
You know, Mandrake, I happen to believe in a life after this one...
asking for the codeDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964He moves from faith in an afterlife to asking for the code, dressing pressure as trust. - B19 lines
Really? So it's like a bunk-bed couch? Is that what it's like?
Business takes the couch apartThe Lego Movie · 2014He asks like a designer and answers like a hangman, nailing each gag as waste. - B25 lines
Looking over my story so far...
Inside and outside the secretThe Great Gatsby · 2013Five short lines place Nick as the man who watches other people's secrets. - C16 lines
Because not only do I know exactly how Mickey's business operates 199455205.
Fletcher's leverage speechThe Gentlemen · 2020He stacks facts, then crowns himself, turning blackmail into a job offer. - B115 lines
It's wrong, and it was eating me up.
Derek's confessionAmerican History X · 1998He moves from confession to warning to love, and the plain words land hardest. - B15 lines
He gets so excited.
the ghost crab lessonThe Way Way Back · 2013She delivers a crab fact like a family legend, and the earnestness shows the bond. - B15 lines
Santa Coloma wasn't a heist... [speaks in Spanish]
Not a heistPuss in Boots: The Last Wish · 2022He denies the robbery, then adds church guests, then his empty place. Each beat drops the room. - B16 lines
I was a gay man who wanted to have hair like Jennifer Aniston.
Came home and put the show onFriends: The Reunion · 2021He jokes about the haircut, then calls them real friends, then the sentence breaks. - C113 lines
I stopped the car and sat still... remembering.
The drive that brought him backThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943Lost on an old road, he remembers the lake and lets the memory decide his return. - B25 lines
I don't have a big heart, Trish.
Refusing pitySLC Punk · 1998The big heart shrinks to a pea, then the speaker asks them to stop feeling sorry. - B219 lines
You have a D.A...
A death-row monologueThe Thin Blue Line · 1988Short parallel sentences make the horror sound routine, which is what makes it land. - C113 lines
But cross-examination in a sexual assault case, it is a completely different thing.
Not that kind of crossNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022The sport drains out of her voice as she justifies questioning someone she says she pities. - B24 lines
We've located the second creature.
The agent's threat analysisBeavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe · 2022The clinical tone builds until the punchline about their internal organs lands. - C112 lines
I mean in singing, but in loving,
no rhyme for loveMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993He runs through famous lovers only to mock his own clumsy tongue, building a stand-up rhythm. - C110 lines
Three years ago, I get a call from an ex-priest.
The priest is silencedSpotlight · 2015Witness, bishop threat, guilty phone call — a sworn timeline in hallway talk. - C25 lines
Then let my love be younger than thyself, or thy affection cannot hold the bent.
The duke's rose speechTwelfth Night · 2012His advice about age dissolves into the rose image, tender and fatal at once. - B26 lines
I'm gonna have to decompress from all this attention, because it's like gettin'...
On coming down from attentionThe End of the Tour · 2015He compares attention to a drug, then lands on being alone with paper. - B27 lines
He says, " If he had smiled, why would he have smiled?
the betrayed husband passageSlacker · 1990Its rolling parallel clauses turn one husband's betrayal into a loop with no first or last. - B27 lines
Everybody goes through that the first time. I went through it.
The higher-path speechTraining Day · 2001He comforts Jake first, then sells corruption as a calling, building to an offer he cannot refuse. - B14 lines
Just write it down.
Schikaneder's ultimatumAmadeus · 1984The imperatives shorten line by line until one curse ends his patience. - B28 lines
I seen Mrs. Ferrars myself: Miss Lucy Steele as was.
Thomas's reportSense and Sensibility · 1995Eight sentences pile detail on detail until a quiet marriage becomes a village drama. - B25 lines
No. No, no, no, no.
The handler's warningReservoir Dogs · 1992Five lines move from denial to exposure to orders, spelling out the code Freddy must follow. - B14 lines
This is my confession.
Handing over the accountAmazing Grace · 2006He reduces a life to a list of names, and the flat tone makes the weight heavier.