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
- C19 lines
No, my life is in the hands of the police, the CPS, the court system.
From no control to yesNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022It climbs from institutions and fear to the girl she might lose, then lands on yes. - C14 lines
By innocence I swear and by my youth I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth...
The page's refusalTwelfth Night · 2012Every vow is sincere and every vow hides the same secret, so the refusal is honest and false at once. - B28 lines
He has this-this unending potential, this dormant potential...
mocking the potential mythSlacker · 1990He peels the self-help myth apart until it becomes a lie that drives people. - B216 lines
What happens if the manager won't give you the diamonds?
Joe's plan for resistanceReservoir Dogs · 1992The tone cools from a broken nose to a cut finger, making violence sound routine. - B24 lines
See, I made a wish to meet the right guy.
Lynn's fairy-tale speechInterstate 60 · 2002She turns a chance meeting into a fairy-tale test, half teasing, half serious. - B27 lines
Andy was really sleep deprived and exhausted and our oncologist basically just stormed in there like a bull in a China shop with a bunch of other registrars around him and read Andy the Riot Act on his chances being slim and it could be a choice if he wanted to just not go ahead.
Vashti recalls the diagnosisBe Here Now · 2015She stacks every detail into one breath until the verdict lands, then answers with resolve. - B16 lines
Part of me tonight .... Sidney.
Myra's confessionDeathtrap · 1982The broken, halting sentences strip her shame and desire bare, and the listener cannot look away. - B112 lines
If it isn't our Prince Ali.
The fake prince, named in publicAladdin · 2019Courtesy first, then the real name, then exile that throws him off the stage. - B27 lines
Come out here, son. I want you to see something.
the director's pitchSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959He builds his case in stages, junk lot to building to bequest, so money and obligation arrive together. - B15 lines
Our pilot says to pack up.
Midnight lunches at the gateCome from Away · 2021Pack-up, the lunch gauntlet, and the cash that never lands, in one send-off. - B26 lines
If you're part of a crew, nobody ever tells you they're going to kill you.
how the mob killsGoodFellas · 1990The calm voice lists the rules of murder until the calm itself becomes terrifying. - C14 lines
I hope that in years to come
The curse on the calendarOppenheimer · 2023He hands them pride, then books the day people will curse this place. - B29 lines
I wish you had some evil in you that you might
Proctor's ConfessionThe Crucible · 2014He moves from a truth about reputation to his own guilt, giving himself away line by line. - B26 lines
These are the two days that you have promised me and we have prepared to nail the big move.
Tiffany's protestSilver Linings Playbook · 2012She takes apart Pat's excuses line by line and turns the blame back onto the father. - B14 lines
That's the most fatuous lie you could possibly think up.
Humbert's accusationLolita · 1962He dismisses her story, then answers his own questions, building a guess into a verdict. - B24 lines
My father was an alcoholic. Mean, fuckin' drunk.
Sean's childhood confessionGood Will Hunting · 1997The flat, matter-of-fact delivery makes the remembered violence hit harder than any complaint. - B26 lines
it’s time to run out
Depression Barbie copyBarbie · 2023Sweatpants, scrolling, family-size candy: the crash read like a limited-edition insert. - B23 lines
You told me
Hold on, let go, then the giftSigned, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made · 2021The old lesson becomes the present: what he was meant to release, someone else kept. - B212 lines
All right, I want you all to focus for a second.
The telephone rallyThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013He turns a plain phone into a target and his brokers into killers and warriors. - B214 lines
You return,
Blanc walks the crimeKnives Out · 2019Second person, step by step, as cold as a how-to. - C116 lines
I shall die here.
A farewell from the cellV for Vendetta · 2006Death, dignity and love are laid out calmly, which makes the ending land. - B212 lines
Oh, I suppose...
The family lectureThe Great Gatsby · 2013Tom packs class, race, and cheating into one sermon while the room sweats. - B15 lines
Okay. What I see...
Emmet reads the mess as inspirationThe Lego Movie · 2014He walks the villain through the wreckage until wreckage sounds like a workshop, and then he asks him to look. - B15 lines
You gonna take the coward's way out?
Death makes him pick up the swordPuss in Boots: The Last Wish · 2022Three questions pin him: extra lives, the chicken door, then the blade slammed back at his paws.