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
- B25 lines
See, I felt married to her.
It was all for herThe Great Gatsby · 2013The short landing: house, parties, motive. Only her left. - B25 lines
It's happening even now. More questions. More details.
The room comes backNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022Detail and shame land in short blows, and then her counsel smiles as if it went well. - C26 lines
But this your minion, whom I know you love and whom by heaven
The duke's murderous vowTwelfth Night · 2012It slides from jealous admission to a vow of killing, piled with animal images. - B18 lines
I mean, that was the one thing I didn't want.
Andy names his worst fearBe Here Now · 2015He circles his worst fear and lands, quietly, on the number itself. - C111 lines
And I honestly cannot think...
Sidney's calm confessionDeathtrap · 1982It drifts from celebrity gossip to his own fortune and then to murder, calm all the way. - B26 lines
That volume contains only one poem, as do the others I have.
A poem a summerSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959She turns writing into a ritual, and the calm shows how central she believes she is. - C13 lines
It was all part of his plan.
Strauss calls the guilt a crownOppenheimer · 2023The voice-over treats the public stand as a planned show, and the crown nails the pose. - B24 lines
I’m a five-foot-nothing grandma
Ruth takes the myth apartBarbie · 2023Height, surgery, tax evasion: she makes herself a person, then tells Barbie to take a bow. - B25 lines
I have something for you, chancellor.
V's farewell giftV for Vendetta · 2006The politeness makes the killing colder, as if it were a gift to be handed over. - B24 lines
five years ago, when I started Stratton Oakmont with Donnie Azoff, I knew the day
the farewell openingThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013It sets up a gracious exit only so the reversal lands harder moments later. - B26 lines
I never did. Why? Why didn't I reach out to Adam?
Shame, then the next blowNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022Shame, a frozen mother, then the line that says the hard part is only starting. - C24 lines
So comes it, lady, you have been mistook.
The twins explainedTwelfth Night · 2012Four lines untangle the mistaken identity and confirm the betrothal in one calm sweep. - B28 lines
I just get a sense that something like cancer has a switch and...
The cancer switchBe Here Now · 2015He turns a terminal illness into a switch he might flip, cold logic hiding hope. - C117 lines
You stressed it in the seminar, first day.
Clifford explains the conDeathtrap · 1982It sounds like a writing lesson while quietly recapping how the whole con was built. - B26 lines
As strictly as if he'd taken a vow. This sounds like vanity, doctor...
On chastity and puritySuddenly, Last Summer · 1959She admits vanity only to raise her son higher, dressing possession as virtue. - B26 lines
I want you to get all our clients on the phone right now and have them start selling Steve Madden.
Jordan's order to crush the stockThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013Each line raises the stakes from an order to an open threat. - C111 lines
But then all these questions about Julian's arms, his hands.
The hand-count trapNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022She counts the hands aloud until the only one left in their story is hers. - C24 lines
Why, some are born great.
Feste on greatnessTwelfth Night · 2012Feste stacks three kinds of greatness, then quietly claims a part in the joke. - B24 lines
I want to continue this life with seeing my children grow up.
If I don't make itBe Here Now · 2015He accepts the worst ending first, then quietly entrusts his family to Vashti. - B24 lines
Victor lives just long enough to tell the truth about himself and Julian...
The play's closing beatsDeathtrap · 1982Truth, a suicide and a curtain fall in a few tight beats, like pages turning. - B212 lines
Sebastian left her home like a toy he tired of.
Nothing but baitSuddenly, Last Summer · 1959She traces a used life from toy to bait, and the calm makes it crueller. - B25 lines
We're going to Monaco so that we can drive to Switzerland
Jordan's detour planThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013He rattles off a smuggling detour as if it were a business itinerary. - C19 lines
'Mr Julian Brookes' QC here will at some stage tell you the jury
What she has lostNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022The repeated I have lost turns the cross-examination into a ledger, and the last item is the system itself. - B112 lines
And in the morning, we took him to the hospice.
The butterfly goodbyeBe Here Now · 2015A dying man turns his body into a butterfly so his children can understand goodbye.