# Favorite quotes from the movie Network **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [October 16, 2021, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quotes-from-the-movie-network/952601 "2021-10-16T16:02:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2021, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quotes-from-the-movie-network/952601/1 "2021-10-16T16:02:47Z")
I’ll start with a very simple one (it hardly qualifies as memorable), lest I step on someone’s favorite - [TV studio background noise] PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Howard just said he was going to kill himself next Tuesday. [TV studio background noise] PRODUCER:: What do you mean Howard just said he was going to kill himself next Tuesday? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quotes-from-the-movie-network/952601/2 "2021-10-16T16:28:16Z")
“I’M MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!” Yes, Discobot, it’s a complete sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quotes-from-the-movie-network/952601/3 "2021-10-16T16:29:42Z")
A couple, but not the obvious ones. Also quoting Howard Beale and Arthur Jensen’s Oscar-worthy speeches take too long. Max: Why is it that a woman always thinks that the most savage thing she can say to a man is to impugn his cocksmanship. And the one that I think sums up the craziness of the core of the film: [in response to Beale asking his viewers to yell out their windows]: They’re yelling in [insert city name]! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2021, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quotes-from-the-movie-network/952601/4 "2021-10-16T18:52:20Z")
One that I’ve come to use many times as I get older: “FUCK YOU, HONEY!” ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quotes-from-the-movie-network/952601/5 "2021-10-16T20:10:15Z")
> > “You can blow the seminal prisoner class infrastructure out your ass! I’m not knockin’ down my goddamn distribution charges!” Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quotes-from-the-movie-network/952601/6 "2021-10-16T20:52:24Z")
I’m human being, GOD DAMMIT! My life has value! ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2021, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quotes-from-the-movie-network/952601/7 "2021-10-16T21:47:02Z")
Louise Schumacher: _I’m your wife, damn it. And, if you can’t work up a whit of passion for me, the least I require is respect and allegiance._ (Funny, the best use of a 5-minute scene in movie history, just about, and the genesis of an academy award for best supporting actress, and IMDB has Beatrice Straight listed 36th in the credits. This mirrors the closing credits in the movie.) ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quotes-from-the-movie-network/952601/8 "2021-10-17T01:52:38Z")
I thinki it’s “winter passion.” ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quotes-from-the-movie-network/952601/9 "2021-10-17T02:45:05Z")
That makes more sense. I copied it from IMDB. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quotes-from-the-movie-network/952601/10 "2021-10-17T02:48:47Z")
“This is a NETWORK! We WORK for the NETWORK to make the NETWORK WORK!” All right, fine, I’ve never seen Network. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quotes-from-the-movie-network/952601/11 "2021-10-17T03:32:42Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/R2FnK_ItgJA/maxresdefault.jpg "Better Call Saul - Network Speech [S01E01]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2FnK_ItgJA) ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quotes-from-the-movie-network/952601/12 "2021-10-17T04:19:52Z")
Many people don’t know that this is based on an actual practice by humorist, author, and radio broadcaster Jean Shepard (probably best known for writing _A Christmas Story_). > From time to time Shepherd, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, would tell his listeners to go to their windows, open them, place their radios with loudspeakers pointed out into the night and turn up the volume. > Shepherd would then yell some startling comment that would be heard throughout the neighborhood. He called this act of comic defiance, “Hurling an Invective.” > > Shepherd said that Chayefsky had called him and asked if he would mind if in “Network” he could, in a kind of tribute to Shepherd’s “invectives,” use the idea. Some of Shep’s invectives: > • You don’t think for a moment you’re fooling anyone, do you? > > • How long do you think you can get away with this? The jig is up! > > • You filthy pragmatist! From [here](https://shepquest.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/jean-shepherd-im-as-mad-as-hell/). ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quotes-from-the-movie-network/952601/13 "2021-10-17T04:23:45Z")
“They say I can sell anything, Mr. Beale. I’d like to try to sell something to you.” ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quotes-from-the-movie-network/952601/14 "2021-10-17T04:29:55Z")
“I have seen the face of God” ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quotes-from-the-movie-network/952601/15 "2021-10-17T05:27:31Z")
“This was the story of Howard Beale; the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.” ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quotes-from-the-movie-network/952601/16 "2021-10-17T05:37:39Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > A couple, but not the obvious ones. Also quoting Howard Beale and Arthur Jensen’s Oscar-worthy speeches take too long. I think _Network_ is brilliant, but Ned Beatty’s big speech just never did anything for me. The rest of the movie, Peter Finch’s diatribes in particular, are wonderfully plain-spoken. And then Beatty comes in with the sort pompous buzzwords that the rest of the movie is so good at skewering. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quotes-from-the-movie-network/952601/17 "2021-10-17T05:57:54Z")
I’ve always liked Barbara’s (Conchata Ferrell’s) TV show pitches to Diana Christensen: > [@](#): > > These are those four outlines submitted by Universal for an hour series. You needn’t bother to read them; I’ll tell them to you. > > The first one is set at a large Eastern law school, presumably Harvard. The series is irresistibly entitled “The New Lawyers.” The running characters are a crusty-but-benign ex-Supreme Court justice, presumably Oliver Wendell Holmes by way of Dr. Zorba; there’s a beautiful girl graduate student; and the local district attorney who is brilliant and sometimes cuts corners. > > The second one is called “The Amazon Squad.” The running characters include a crusty-but-benign police lieutenant who’s always getting heat from the commissioner; a hard-nosed, hard-drinking detective who thinks women belong in the kitchen; and the brilliant and beautiful young girl cop who’s fighting the feminist battle on the force. > > Up next is another one of those investigative reporter shows. A crusty-but-benign managing editor who’s always gett… At that point, Diana cuts Barbara off, but the point is made: Barbara has summed up just about every TV drama of the mid-1970s.