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Contemporary monologues for teens

Teenage characters written by living writers, not a thirty-year-old's speech with the age crossed out. Most of these sources are copyrighted, so the page lists the piece and where it lives.

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Elaine from The Graduate
Mike Nichols · film · comedic · 1:17 min
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Beatrice from The Changeling
Peter Medak · film · dramatic · 1:00 min
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Eugene Marchbanks from Candida
George Bernard Shaw · play · dramatic · 1:13 min
You think because I shrink from being brutally handled—because I can do nothing but cry with rage when I am met with violence—because I can't lift a heavy trunk down from the top…
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Henry Apjohn (Her Lover) from How He Lied to Her Husband
George Bernard Shaw · play · comedic · 1:26 min
Our course is perfectly simple, perfectly straightforward, perfectly stainless and true. We love one another. I am not ashamed of that: I am ready to go out and proclaim it to all…
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The Lady from The Pierrot of the Minute
Ernest Dowson · play · romantic · 1:54 min
Unwitting boy! when, be it soon or late, What Pierrot ever has escaped his fate? What if I warned him! He might yet evade, Through the long windings of this verdant glade; Seek…
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Student from Love of One's Neighbor
Leonid Andreyev · play · comedic · 1:33 min
He won't fall to-day, papa! Second Girl. Papa, Mary has closed her eyes again. First Student. Let us sit down, papa! Upon my word, he won't fall to-day. The porter told me so. I…
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First Girl from The Slave with Two Faces
Mary Carolyn Davies · play · philosophical · 2:01 min
For whom are you waiting? I am waiting for Life also. He passes all ways. Are you not afraid of him? I, too, ran to meet him. No. It is only the little quarreling words of the…
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Life from The Slave with Two Faces
Mary Carolyn Davies · play · philosophical · 1:57 min
Are you afraid of me? There are many who are afraid of me. There are many who are afraid. A slave may become a master. I may become— If I were your master, I would be kind to you.…
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Benvenuta from The Nursery Maid of Heaven
Thomas Wood Stevens · play · melancholic · 3:17 min
My dear—my dear little Great One, can you hear my voice through the door? Dear little child Christ, I am so sorry for you, alone for days and days in the closet with the holy…
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Gwen from Spider Man Across The Spider Verse
Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson · film · anguished · 0:46 min
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Young Ellie from Up
Pete Docter, Bob Peterson · film · inspirational · 1:50 min
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Russell from Up
Pete Docter, Bob Peterson · film · contemplative · 0:40 min
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Roderick from Barry Lyndon
Stanley Kubrick · film · melancholic · 2:32 min
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Frank from Sling Blade
Billy Bob Thornton · film · melancholic · 1:12 min
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Betty from Mulholland Drive
David Lynch · film · joyful · 0:52 min
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Penny from Almost Famous
Cameron Crowe · film · anguished · 0:50 min
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William from Almost Famous
Cameron Crowe · film · anguished · 0:35 min
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Jojo from Jojo Rabbit
Taika Waititi · film · defiant · 1:02 min
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Jojo from Jojo Rabbit
Taika Waititi · film · melancholic · 1:00 min
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Agu from Beasts of No Nation
Cary Joji Fukunaga · film · melancholic · 2:05 min
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Agu from Beasts of No Nation
Cary Joji Fukunaga · film · dark · 1:02 min
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Agu from Beasts of No Nation
Cary Joji Fukunaga · film · anguished · 0:47 min
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Karen from Ordinary People
Robert Redford · film · contemplative · 0:34 min
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Seth from Superbad
Greg Mottola · film · comedic · 0:36 min
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Seth from Superbad
Greg Mottola · film · comedic · 0:35 min
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David from Pleasantville
Gary Ross · film · contemplative · 0:31 min
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David from Pleasantville
Gary Ross · film · inspirational · 0:47 min
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Claudia from Interview with the Vampire
Neil Jordan · film · anguished · 0:30 min
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Charlie from The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky · film · contemplative · 2:54 min
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Wybie from Coraline
Henry Selick · film · contemplative · 0:46 min

Length is estimated at a spoken pace of about 150 words a minute. Public-domain pieces are printed in full on their own page; copyrighted ones list the character and the source.

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