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
- B218 lines
Well, we all know the psychic powers of the televised image...
the image beats realitySlacker · 1990He builds a strange theory from TV powers to a street stabbing, using tape controls as proof. - B29 lines
You guys like to tell jokes and giggle and kid around, huh?
Joe's prison jokeReservoir Dogs · 1992It turns a joke into a warning, closing on a question that lands like an order. - B28 lines
Now this is dynamite.
Cody's courtroom showdownInterstate 60 · 2002He moves from announcing dynamite to ordering the judge, all in a level, almost bored voice. - B27 lines
When I met Andy, I'd met someone to walk beside and that feeling was overwhelming.
Vashti's closing wordsBe Here Now · 2015She threads meeting, balance and softening into two closing images. - B27 lines
Comes as friend to help you, to ....
Helga describes the attackerDeathtrap · 1982The details pile up while staying blurry, which is exactly how a half-seen prophecy feels. - B218 lines
You were just a boy
Talking Hakim off the vizierAladdin · 2019She walks him from the gardens to honor, then moves his loyalty from Jafar to the city. - B114 lines
The beach was very white.
the burning beachSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959The imagery accelerates from blinding white to a scream, carrying the memory right up to the moment it shuts down. - B16 lines
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Screech.
How Screech got its nameCome from Away · 2021A war joke nails the rum's name, and the laugh finishes the initiation. - B210 lines
Karen finally got her mother to put her house up for my bail and I was out.
Henry's plan after bailGoodFellas · 1990Every calm step of the plan is really another move to stay alive. - C19 lines
Virtually everyone in the street,
Reading the blastOppenheimer · 2023Burns, then luck, then death locked to the flash. - B24 lines
She claims as well that none of you have Now, children, this is a court of law.
Danforth on Law and BibleThe Crucible · 2014He stacks law, Bible and death penalty into one solemn warning. - B29 lines
Maybe I didn't
The father's confessionSilver Linings Playbook · 2012After all the football talk, the real confession about missing his son's childhood lands hardest. - B215 lines
Well, Dr. Humbert, to you she is still the little girl what is cradled in the arms...
The psychologist's sermonLolita · 1962He slides from school business into nostalgia and self-importance, charming and slippery at once. - B210 lines
Gerry, listen to me. Listen. Why is he hiding? Why doesn't he trust anybody?
Sean's defence of WillGood Will Hunting · 1997The questions build until the real diagnosis lands, and Sean refuses to let the pattern repeat. - B23 lines
I’m just gonna sit here and wait and hope
Barbie sits this one outBarbie · 2023She parks the leadership job on some other Barbie and waits for a snap. - B24 lines
You said that
Shane traces how she found itSigned, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made · 2021She starts with the person who knew him longest, walks it to the church, and lands on one phone call. - B222 lines
I wanna take a moment and tell you why Steve here is so absolutely off the fucking wall.
Jordan hypes Steve MaddenThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013The praise slides from worship into crude jokes, and the excess is the comedy. - C19 lines
But I was hired before the sealed will was read.
Hired before the willKnives Out · 2019The timeline stacks three facts: the client knew, a crime existed, and Marta sat in it. - C19 lines
I'd always known what I wanted to do with my life...
Valerie's love storyV for Vendetta · 2006Small domestic details build the happiness that the war then destroys. - B15 lines
Come on. We'll get...
A Plaza roomThe Great Gatsby · 2013Ice, whiskey, and a great big room: they ship the embarrassment downtown instead of naming it. - B15 lines
I know it's hard to understand...
Dad claims the tableThe Lego Movie · 2014He starts gentle, then takes the whole set as property. - B18 lines
Oh, yeah? You want to know what my wish was?
Kitty names trustPuss in Boots: The Last Wish · 2022She goes from the wish to a life without trust, then pins his legend as the same old act. - B14 lines
Can I just say something?
Jennifer on being herselfFriends: The Reunion · 2021She apologizes for the wording, then calls the off-key weirdo the one who was actually herself. - B28 lines
I just took off.
The runaway on the roadThe Thin Blue Line · 1988Hardship is broken into food and shelter, and the smallness is what stings.