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
- B111 lines
This is terrific.
Sal's family speechDo the Right Thing · 1989Sal links a new name, his sons, and Mookie into one speech about family and belonging. - B27 lines
That I'm a fuckin' orphan? No, you don't wanna hear that. - I didn't know that. I didn't know that.
Will's outburstGood Will Hunting · 1997He flings his childhood wounds at her one by one, using rage to guard what is left of his pride. - B17 lines
The day she left us,
He left the bear at the altarSigned, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made · 2021Rage wants a throw. Love sends the toy to church. Then he never looks back. - B26 lines
Every bitch-ass motherfucking factory worker will go down like that too.
Mark's drunken rantAmerican Movie · 1999Each insult lands harder until the whole room goes quiet. - B14 lines
You know, when I was a little girl in Jacksonboro,
Jacksonboro, firstUncle Frank · 2020She starts in childhood and a slur. The welcome is already going sour before the story finishes. - B26 lines
I was making that much almost every day through one rathole or another.
The rathole accountsThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013He explains a whole money scheme in the calmest voice, which makes it chilling. - B26 lines
Dearest Linda, Walter, and Joni...
Harlan’s letterKnives Out · 2019He asks them to take it with grace, then locks the door. Tenderness with no room to bargain. - B28 lines
It's funny.
V on coincidence and rosesV for Vendetta · 2006Two roses turn chance into fate, and the last gift is delivered without a raised voice. - B27 lines
You see, I've got lung cancer.
Cody's cancer and dynamite warningInterstate 60 · 2002He stacks illness, dynamite and a threat so calmly that the calm itself is the menace. - B27 lines
Go outside into your yard, onto a roof, onto your sidewalk, and just look up into the sky.
The appeal to look upDon't Look Up · 2021It stacks ordinary places and flat verdicts until a science note becomes a public call. - B123 lines
I don't understand you people!
Juror Ten's prejudice speech12 Angry Men · 1957The speech damns itself as the room quietly empties, turning words into isolation. - B29 lines
You see, we deal with an inordinate number of reports,
The Captain's bureaucratic speechJojo Rabbit · 2019He buries the real demand under pages of official talk, then slips the knife in with a polite question. - B18 lines
Look, Emmet.
Lucy wanted to be The SpecialThe Lego Movie · 2014The hard act slips. She lays out the jealousy without dressing it up. - B25 lines
You see, you were there all along...
He will rebuild the night for herThe Great Gatsby · 2013From every idea to I'll change it: the mansion is a love letter with a renovation clause. - B24 lines
That was horrible.
Calling Jack a monsterPuss in Boots: The Last Wish · 2022Each line tightens: the pie was horrible; then the man is. - B24 lines
Like, the monkey,
The monkey resets the gagFriends: The Reunion · 2021Marks, timing, and resets stack until the laugh dies one beat early. - C123 lines
Clive, if you let yourself be defeated by them just because you are too fair to hit back the same way they hit at you,
Theo on total warThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943He builds pressure line by line and ends on a match that can never be replayed. - C110 lines
When the Appellate Court reverses a case...
The judge on how appeals workThe Thin Blue Line · 1988He tallies the votes, then one short line sends the whole argument sideways. - C112 lines
I run into a QC in the square outside.
The offer she reins inNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022The praise climbs into an offer, then money and a house rule pull it down. - B26 lines
Why did you not go through the portal before?
The counterpart's lectureBeavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe · 2022It moves from a scolding question to a final order, deadpan and relentless. - C17 lines
It's time, Robby. It's time!
Mike blowsSpotlight · 2015He stacks now, the kids, the scumbags, the pope—each beat hotter than the last. - C17 lines
Having been three months married to her sitting in my state...
Malvolio's count fantasyTwelfth Night · 2012He furnishes the fantasy down to the officers and the gowns, and detail is what makes the fall funny. - B114 lines
I tend to do, like, the jerk, the swim.
On dancing at a Baptist churchThe End of the Tour · 2015He makes Baptist disco sound both corny and free. - B27 lines
One of the true heroes of American history.
the Leon Czolgosz tributeSlacker · 1990He builds a killer into a hero line by line, and the idealism burns off the screen.