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
- C26 lines
Oh, oh, ho.
Malvolio's self-delusionTwelfth Night · 2012He reads every stare as a hint and grows more certain with each wrong guess. - B222 lines
And then you got the whole other end of the realm where there's like the Smurfs...
the Smurfs as a familySlacker · 1990He turns a children's cartoon into a lecture on bribery, belonging and belief. - C15 lines
So, Mr Orange...
Eddie's challenge to OrangeReservoir Dogs · 1992He repeats Orange's story until it collapses into one incredulous question. - B16 lines
8-ball, is the murder weapon in this box?
Interrogating the 8-ballInterstate 60 · 2002He hands his fate to a plastic toy, and the harder he tries the funnier and sadder it gets. - B26 lines
I think you should just feel it.
A wife's pleaBe Here Now · 2015She never tells him to be brave; she keeps handing the choice back to him. - B24 lines
Just in the last few days, really. You know, it was pretty bad last week.
Porter on SidneyDeathtrap · 1982He lists the crying, the drinking and the recovery calmly, care mixed with a lawyer's watching eye. - B16 lines
You think so, but I am sultan!
Jafar crowns himself strongestAladdin · 2019Sultan, sorcerer, empire, ruin: he stacks titles until he sounds unstoppable. - B26 lines
Don't worry a thing about what people say.
the family cover storySuddenly, Last Summer · 1959She packages a lie as care, calmly rehearsing the story the family will tell outsiders. - B26 lines
This is not a democracy!
The captain kills the voteCome from Away · 2021Democracy first, then American Airlines and the FAA, then a polite thank-you that is really an order. - C13 lines
Dr. Oppenheimer is a man of upstanding character.
Rabi vouches for characterOppenheimer · 2023He stacks loyalty: the man, the country, the friend, the institution. - B24 lines
A fire, a fire is burning!
Proctor's courtroom outburstThe Crucible · 2014It builds from fire to the devil's face and drags the judges into the same flames. - B211 lines
The Birds lose, I lose a fucking fortune. A fortune to Randy.
Pat Sr.'s losing rantSilver Linings Playbook · 2012The betting slang and raw swearing make his collapse feel immediate and ugly. - B211 lines
I'd had a crush on him ever since the times...
Lolita's old confessionLolita · 1962The flat delivery lets each new detail land harder than any outburst would. - C125 lines
Like we have to always be extraordinary.
Gloria’s rules for womenBarbie · 2023Each You have to stacks, then a but knocks it down. - B210 lines
So you listen to me and you listen well.
Turning poverty into a sales pitchThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013Rapid rhetorical questions weld shame and desire into one driving force. - C123 lines
Poor Fran.
Fran's blackmail chainKnives Out · 2019From a glance at the bag to a note, pity hardens into proof. - B213 lines
Listen to me, Evey.
The speech that gives her back her strengthV for Vendetta · 2006Step by step he returns her to the moment she faced death, and the argument lands. - B25 lines
Can't you see who this guy is...
Tearing the front awayThe Great Gatsby · 2013House, parties, clothes — then the gangster's claw. - B24 lines
Star light, star bright,
Jack recites the star rhymePuss in Boots: The Last Wish · 2022The nursery couplet never finishes, so greed is caught mid-spell. - B24 lines
You seek me out.
The soul calls like a foghornFriends: The Reunion · 2021She rapid-fires a duck into destiny, and the foghorn simile pins it. - C15 lines
'Is that good?' me mum asks.
No comfort in the womenNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022She answers her mother's hope with a harder question about women not believing women. - C24 lines
Go hang yourselves, all.
Malvolio's exit curseTwelfth Night · 2012Four short lines harden into a curse, hiding humiliation under wounded pride. - B29 lines
A lot of times I leave a relationship and I feel like a whole person again.
the breakup monologueSlacker · 1990She moves from relief to self-doubt in a clean, honest arc. - B210 lines
I'm just trying to find some serenity, and some calm in it.
Fear, anger, and loveBe Here Now · 2015In one calm stretch he moves from exhaustion to love, summing up the film's whole creed.