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
- B27 lines
But what do we really sell? I’ll tell you what.
The CEO's sparkle-and-agency pitchBarbie · 2023Dream, imagination, sparkle, then female agency — the empty climb is the joke. - B15 lines
Mookie's not to be trusted.
Pino's warningDo the Right Thing · 1989Short lines build a vivid threat, dressing prejudice up as hard-won survival advice. - B29 lines
You ever hear of Gerald Lambeau?
Lambeau's gift speechGood Will Hunting · 1997He climbs from a nobody to Einstein to a ruined genius, tightening the argument line by line. - C117 lines
The most remote habitat of all exists at the extreme north and south of the planet.
From wonder to lost iceDavid Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet · 2020Wonder stands for a moment, then a birth year and a boat that once could not get through make the missing ice felt. - B16 lines
Belsnickel, you don't need to be an elf
Kate talks him homeThe Christmas Chronicles: Part Two · 2020She moves from running away to family to Christmas, each step softer than the last. - C15 lines
The Old Testament sells fear and guilt.
Religion repriced as a salethe-man-from-earth-2007 · 2007Hope gets repriced as fear, the words are handed to smarter writers, and a fairy tale closes the case. - B111 lines
I don't want you to hurt anymore, buddy.
Goodbye to ArthurArthur the King · 2024A string of short promises builds from farewell to a vow to keep fighting. - B24 lines
Oh, Captain, hi.
Oliver's rehearsal introSigned, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made · 2021He says the same agency name twice; nerves turn the opener into a loop. - B14 lines
After that, an army of beauty experts invaded her house on Sunset Boulevard.
Joe on Norma's regimenSunset Boulevard · 1950A doomed beauty routine described like Olympic training, all the more painful for its seriousness. - B25 lines
There was a time when I would have resented such impertinence...
Holloway's calm rebukeThe Uninvited · 1944The courtesy never cracks, and that is exactly what makes the threat land. - C19 lines
It's amazing, Melody.
Boris on the human conditionWhatever Works · 2009It flattens thousands of years of civilization into small talk, then shrugs it all away. - B113 lines
Oh, man. They're always fighting all the time.
On his parents' marriageAmerican Movie · 1999He moves from old anger to forgiveness and back again, all inside one short speech. - B15 lines
You have me.
Wally claims him at the graveUncle Frank · 2020He starts with You have me and lands on till death like a vow. - B27 lines
We are gathered here today...
the wedding vowsWhen Harry Met Sally... · 1989Formal parallel lines build from vows to wine to rings, making the marriage official. - B25 lines
Except, guess who grew up with him?
Introducing DonnieThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013The tease-and-reveal builds Donnie up as a comic force before he even speaks. - B26 lines
your family is from Uruguay, but you did it right.
The model immigrant lectureKnives Out · 2019Praise for doing it legally, then a shove to agree, while a person becomes a prop. - B212 lines
You see, we are both fugitives in our own way.
Gordon on wearing a maskV for Vendetta · 2006He moves from a wry joke to a confession of years spent hiding, and lands it quietly. - B213 lines
Well, he was an historian.
Cody's frontier lectureInterstate 60 · 2002He expands one historian's idea into a theory of America, feeding in jokes as he goes. - B14 lines
But you... you're my friend,
Brightbill afraid of lossThe Wild Robot · 2024Stutters and what-ifs: the fear of being left, said all the way through. - C130 lines
I'm sorry, but not everything needs to sound so goddamn clever or charming or likeable all the time.
Randall's on-air meltdownDon't Look Up · 2021It builds from a complaint about niceness to human extinction, and breaks off into a plea. - B29 lines
Because this is my time, sir.
Kurt's case to startAmerican Underdog · 2021He builds from who he is to what the team will do, turning doubt into an offer. - B17 lines
I don't know. Sometimes it still hurts.
the pain-fading confessionSwingers · 1996Healing is told as physical pain, and the twist that you miss it lands hard. - B27 lines
All right. Here's the apartment where the killing took place.
The foreman lays out the apartment12 Angry Men · 1957Room by room, he turns the testimony into a floor plan anyone can walk. - B26 lines
Note, the feathers for aerodynamics, the sparkly color to dazzle the enemy, the boots purely decorative.
the uniform tourJojo Rabbit · 2019He presents an absurd design like a product launch, and the straight face sells it.