Movie monologues, one line at a time
2,002 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
And I guess I was the other side.
Andy on his northern childhoodBe Here Now · 2015A light self-jab builds into a proverb that sums up a whole upbringing. - B25 lines
Thursday night, I calls the information, but the lady will not tell me number.
Helga's call to informationDeathtrap · 1982She turns a phone call into a story, and the stranger it gets, the more she seems to sense something. - B218 lines
Written in stone Ev'ry rule, ev'ry word
SpeechlessAladdin · 2019The old rules get sung, then stacked, until the chorus is a refusal to go mute. - B16 lines
They say a heart attack, but I don't remember. I really don't.
why she is hereSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959In a few flat sentences she explains the illness that both traps her and keeps her honest. - B25 lines
I interview a woman from Queens. A mother.
Janice interviews until she criesCome from Away · 2021Reporter and mother shake together. The notebook does not save her. - B26 lines
What does she do after she hangs up with me?
Henry relives the fatal callGoodFellas · 1990Anger builds line by line as one small mistake turns into a disaster. - C17 lines
After the truth about Fuchs came out,
The surveillance tightensOppenheimer · 2023Bugs, tails, trash — then the line that fame was never armor. - B25 lines
No, old man, you have not hurt these people if But you must understand,
Danforth on the AgeThe Crucible · 2014He builds the trial into a sunrise that separates light from dusk. - B18 lines
Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Oh, man. I got an idea.
Danny's dance commandsSilver Linings Playbook · 2012Short bursts of commands build a beat that turns the lesson into chaos. - B16 lines
Whenever you want something I buy it for you automatically.
Humbert's list of favorsLolita · 1962He stacks up gifts and chores to turn control into fatherly love, and each item sounds more defensive than the last. - B112 lines
Well, that's not what I want!
Friendship is not ownershipRalph Breaks the Internet · 2018He lectures the clone and himself at once, and makes letting go the rule. - B29 lines
Let me tell you what I do know.
Chuckie's ten-second confessionGood Will Hunting · 1997It turns a tiny daily ritual into the clearest proof of how much he wants more for his friend. - B25 lines
And if it weren’t for these technicalities
Ken's ruling confessionBarbie · 2023He laughs MBA and swim class into mere technicalities, then claims the house. - B217 lines
Oliver, I'm sorry your wife left.
Shane’s vow that she knows himSigned, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made · 2021She names both leavings, flips the blame, then repeats the promise until it holds. - B27 lines
Hey, everybody, listen up!
The new-issue-day rallyThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013He turns one firing into a speech that fuses fear with pure hype. - C17 lines
But... But, I spoke in the car about the hole
The nested donutKnives Out · 2019He makes the case a hole you can see, then another hole inside it, like a tongue-twister. - B24 lines
Listen, we've got an extraordinary show for you tonight.
The host's opening welcomeV for Vendetta · 2006The welcome sounds warm while quietly setting a trap for the guest. - B15 lines
You see...
The light on the dockThe Great Gatsby · 2013Five years of watching collapse into one blinking lamp, said softly while the house cooks. - B232 lines
Uh... Ahem. Hey, everybody.
Wyldstyle’s TV rallyThe Lego Movie · 2014An apology becomes a citywide order, the pun hits the pavement, and it ends on a Tuesday joke. - B25 lines
You know...
Nine lives as a jokePuss in Boots: The Last Wish · 2022From not liking cats to calling extra lives absurd, the favor he offers is the last life. - B14 lines
I think that moment was the beginning
The writers rewrite Monica and ChandlerFriends: The Reunion · 2021They walk from a one-night plan to the crowd forcing them to take the pairing seriously. - B24 lines
See, the Millers, one is black and one is white.
The witness defends himselfThe Thin Blue Line · 1988The harder he denies, the more the denial gives him away. - C18 lines
'It might not come up with much because I...
She drafts his defenceNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022The speech accelerates from a shower to the defence he has not spoken, and she is the one writing it. - C16 lines
Cesario, by the roses of the spring, by maidhood, honour, truth, and...
Olivia's confessionTwelfth Night · 2012It opens with oaths and closes with a proverb, so a private plea sounds like law.