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
- B28 lines
I'm putting cases on all you bitches. Huh? You think you can do this shit?
Alonzo's meltdownTraining Day · 2001The rant escalates from legal threats to King Kong, turning his collapse into a grotesque show. - B14 lines
Common time. Second beat of the first measure.
Mozart's final dictationAmadeus · 1984Short musical orders stack up, showing a dying man who will not let the work go. - B24 lines
This is a very weird situation.
Opening the drought storyReservoir Dogs · 1992Four lines set the era, the market and the desperation without wasting a word. - B24 lines
What the VCs want is to say,
The CEO dareThe Social Network · 2010He does the VC voice, then stamps the swear on the card. - B25 lines
This drug that we're going to give you now
Gibson's last optionBe Here Now · 2015He explains the drug, then closes the door on every other option. - B27 lines
I think maybe you don't get it.
Genie goes back in the lampAladdin · 2019He names the cost of pretending, calls a master a friend, and leaves. - B27 lines
YOU are...
Myra's disillusioned speechDeathtrap · 1982It moves from feeling estranged to fearing the police, withdrawing love step by step. - B27 lines
Once, Sebastian decided to give up the torments of this world...
A son's calling and his mother's chaseSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959One absurd story shows devotion turning into possession, driven by three rising clauses. - B29 lines
I'm getting a coffee at a gas station on the main drag,
Silence at the gas stationCome from Away · 2021Coffee, then a freeze, then a line that measures the kindness against home. - B29 lines
To never have sunlight on your face
CC's songBeaches · 1988It turns a life of quiet support into a thank-you sung out loud. - B15 lines
Nobody's helping me. I'm all alone.
Karen's prison outburstGoodFellas · 1990She builds from loneliness to humiliation, each detail tightening the pressure on Henry. - B24 lines
I never had no wife that be so taken with and I thought to find the cause of it, d’y’see,
Corey on His WifeThe Crucible · 2014He slides from explaining his wife to admitting he cut off all goodwill with her. - C14 lines
I gather you've heard there are other parties
Pash lays the Soviet lineOppenheimer · 2023Heard-of, go-between, then a man who can pass secrets: the net tightens one clause at a time. - B14 lines
Why don't you...
Tiffany's dance coachingSilver Linings Playbook · 2012A run of clipped commands that corners Pat into saying it with his body. - B28 lines
Those notes you found were fragments of a novel that I'm writing.
Humbert's fiction excuseLolita · 1962He hides behind how novelists work, and the longer the excuse runs the guiltier it sounds. - B25 lines
You release him into that Slaughter Race game,
How Arthur bores a game to deathRalph Breaks the Internet · 2018He recites a user manual that is actually a disaster checklist. - B26 lines
Look around you, boss.
O'Neill's counter-speechBreach · 2007It starts with a simple look around and strips the suspicion down fact by fact. - B24 lines
Everything is backwards here.
Barbie indicts the Real WorldBarbie · 2023Object, hated, called crazy, arrested: each beat drops another floor. - C16 lines
Most people never get to see how brilliant they can be.
Sean's closing wordsGood Will Hunting · 1997He widens Will's problem into everyone's, mixing empathy with a quiet challenge. - B23 lines
There are no small miracles, Oliver.
Norman makes the miracle largeSigned, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made · 2021He turns a small mercy into a sermon about distance, comfort with a pulpit in it. - B15 lines
In winter, when the earth decays, and the cars have decayed...
On rust and decayAmerican Movie · 1999He turns a junk lot into a meditation on decay and warmth, ending the scene on a quiet, hopeful note. - B28 lines
For three weeks, we sailed the Naomi through the Caribbean, eventually taking her home to Long Island,
The Gold Coast houseThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013The list of luxuries builds a perfect life, and the perfection is what makes it fragile. - B25 lines
I, Harlan Thrombey, being of sound mind and body
The will landsKnives Out · 2019Legal formula, then the same name three times, until the room has nowhere to hide. - B216 lines
Am I to understand that you have read this document, inspector?
The national security warningV for Vendetta · 2006It climbs from a question to an order, stacking charges until silence sounds like law.