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
- B29 lines
It wasn't until I got back to that peculiar prison of mine that I started facing the facts.
Joe's voiceover on facing factsSunset Boulevard · 1950The voiceover alternates self-mockery and clear sight, so planning an escape becomes self-indictment. - B135 lines
And it's like the room was filled with this thick green and red web, you know?
Mike's green web storyAmerican Movie · 1999He tells a near-death overdose as one slow, fixed image without self-pity. - B14 lines
But, so years ago, when you told me
Beth throws the old advice backUncle Frank · 2020She quotes him, then uses unless to show the sermon never covered him. - B17 lines
Hi. I'm not home right now. I'll call you right back.
the answering-machine messageWhen Harry Met Sally... · 1989Listing options A, B and C to a machine shows how alone and stuck he really is. - B26 lines
Three days later, I filed for a divorce and moved Naomi into the apartment.
Moving Naomi inThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013Divorce, moving and redecorating pass in a few calm lines that still manage to brag. - B29 lines
I think it means our father finally came to his senses
Linda cuts him publiclyKnives Out · 2019She stacks the burned bridges, then drops the will like a gavel. - B29 lines
After what happened, after what they did...
Delia's confessionV for Vendetta · 2006She moves from suicidal guilt to Oppenheimer, mixing apology with a plea she cannot finish. - B26 lines
Some people say, we have a frontier in the mind.
Cody debunks fake frontiersInterstate 60 · 2002He dismisses drink, drugs and computers in turn, and the sarcasm keeps building. - C14 lines
Look, I'm just like all of you.
One of us, then doomedDon't Look Up · 2021He levels with the audience first, then drops the heaviest line, and the gap does the work. - B29 lines
Kurt, listen to me. You know why I was so hard on you?
the coach's belief speechAmerican Underdog · 2021It builds pressure, then reveals it as belief, landing like a clean hit. - B19 lines
This, I have always thought, is a remarkable thing about democracy...
Juror Eleven on democracy12 Angry Men · 1957From a mailed summons to duty and fairness, he makes a system feel concrete. - B16 lines
You're not a Nazi.
Elsa's identity speechJojo Rabbit · 2019She repeats the denial, unpacks what he only looks like, then lands the verdict like a hammer. - C18 lines
Dimitri, look, if this report is true...
Muffley soothes DimitriDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964He keeps explaining, reassuring and bargaining, all in one breath. - B15 lines
Wyldstyle, you're such an amazing person.
Talking Wyldstyle down after Batman bailsThe Lego Movie · 2014Emmet's pep talk keeps slipping: amazing person, then eyes that don't work. Clumsy, and that's why it lands. - B27 lines
...this letter here? DAISY: We can't lose each other...
Daisy's old letterThe Great Gatsby · 2013The letter stacks glory and going home, as if five years could be read aloud. - C124 lines
While I am not emotional about the money,
Mickey's reckoning speechThe Gentlemen · 2020He turns debt, killing and revenge into a business speech, and the polish hides the knife. - B15 lines
You know, I never had much as a kid.
Jack's rich-kid complaintPuss in Boots: The Last Wish · 2022He reads a privilege list as if it were nothing, then wants every wish. - B26 lines
First of all, I want to say I love animals.
I love animals, butFriends: The Reunion · 2021He keeps swearing he loves animals before the monkey. The more he clears his name, the guiltier it sounds. - B14 lines
Of course. Who wouldn't? He's such an old darling.
Angela on the GeneralThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943Four quick turns of praise build a bright, affectionate portrait of her employer. - C15 lines
I was with my family in an ice-cream parlor...
A jab over ice creamThe Thin Blue Line · 1988The insult lands in the most ordinary setting, which makes it colder. - C117 lines
'I'm sorry, Jenna, but I need to ask you a few questions.
Questions that close inNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022Drink, clothes, and the word no are stacked as facts she should accept, and the apology only arrives when the questioning is done. - B16 lines
I have to go back in there before they get suspicious, but you've got to get out of here, now.
Hartson's pitchBeavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe · 2022He rushes them out, then casts himself as their savior. - C112 lines
You know, I went to Providence yesterday
Robby quotes a victimSpotlight · 2015Hockey, family, then collapse—and luck pins every alum in the room. - C16 lines
She never told her love,
A daughter's silent loveTwelfth Night · 2012Three images of decay and stone end in one question that turns a tale into an accusation.