Movie monologues, one line at a time
2,054 real monologues from 161 films. Play a line, pause, say it back.
- 1Full speech: hear it once
- 2Shadow: repeat each line
- 3Blind: listen, then reveal
- 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. - B14 lines
You said it yourself.
Always be secondAladdin · 2019Aladdin uses Jafar's own rule; one word, second, walks him into the lamp. - C15 lines
This is the third item.
Porter on the estateDeathtrap · 1982He names a large fortune flatly, and the calm shows how used he is to money and calculation. - B24 lines
You've gotta understand...
the mother's money talkSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959She moves from a plea to a family history, and every sentence turns feeling into a figure. - B16 lines
But Diane wants to take one last look round.
Nick leads her to the lookoutCome from Away · 2021He shrugs off a million stairs and hides the whole feeling inside a view. - C16 lines
Why go through all this against a man
Mermaids?Oppenheimer · 2023Resume, A-bomb, Super bomb, then a fairy tale that ends the hunger. - B213 lines
Now hear me, and beguile yourselves no more.
Danforth refuses to postponeThe Crucible · 2014It seizes the floor, then builds a wall of law without yielding an inch. - B29 lines
The first night that Pat and I met,
Tiffany's timeline defenseSilver Linings Playbook · 2012She builds a case out of dates and coincidences until it almost sounds airtight. - C111 lines
Okay, here’s the deal.
Weird Barbie’s power playBarbie · 2023Map, then bait, then take the power when the guard drops. - C18 lines
And it would have worked
Kindness wrecks the boardKnives Out · 2019Three ifs take the plan apart; the last line makes mercy the winning move. - B25 lines
It's a basic principle of the universe...
The equal and opposing reactionV for Vendetta · 2006He frames revenge as physics, and the calm makes it land harder. - B28 lines
my point is that I know you're investigating Stratton.
Jordan's yacht defenseThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013He plays humble and pushy at once, turning innocence into a bargaining chip. - B210 lines
We're different.
Born differentThe Great Gatsby · 2013I, they, she — then one sentence that closes the door. - B24 lines
But I did, Mama.
Goldi says just rightPuss in Boots: The Last Wish · 2022She denies the leftover wish, then files the bears under a fairy-tale punchline. - B25 lines
Honestly, I remember saying one time to David,
Jennifer on the first kissFriends: The Reunion · 2021She starts with camera fright and ends up pouring the crush into the part. - C15 lines
Bar table, bench. Panic. All the barristers are men!
The room is all menNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022The list of roles narrows until the room itself is the accusation, and the heartbeat lands it. - C18 lines
Why, man, he's a very devil.
Andrew's cowardly boastTwelfth Night · 2012He builds his rival into a monster line by line, and the bragging is what gives his fear away. - B27 lines
It's a real primal thing, you know. Can it be escap - Perhaps human beings weren't made to be happy and free all the time.
the case against happinessSlacker · 1990He undercuts her optimism step by step, ending with the scrap heap. - B29 lines
Five minutes.
Guided breathingBe Here Now · 2015Short, warm instructions turn a frightening scan into a task he can count through. - B117 lines
No, no long faces, all right?
The Genie sells the last wishAladdin · 2019He keeps rewriting the pitch, from warrior prince to wiping the law, selling harder each pass. - C14 lines
Would have exactly the same effect on an audience, wouldn't it?
The case to SidneyDeathtrap · 1982A chain of rhetorical questions reframes the killing as a hit show no one can disprove.