| Howard Beale: |
I want you to get up right now, and go to the
window, open it, and stick your head out, and yell: "I'm as
mad as Hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" |
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| Howard Beale: |
All I know is, first, you've got to get mad.
You've got to say, "I'm a human being, God damnit! My life
has value!" |
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| Howard Beale: |
[W]hat's wrong with being an angry prophet
denouncing the hypocrisies of our times? What do you think,
Max? |
| Max Schumacher: |
Do you want to be an angry prophet denouncing
the hypocrisies of our times? |
| Howard Beale: |
Yeah, I think I'd like to be an angry prophet
denouncing the hypocrisies of our times. |
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| Howard Beale: |
Yesterday, I announced on this program that
I was going to commit public suicide. Admittedly, an act of
madness. Well, I'll tell you what happened: I just ran out
of bullsh**. |
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| Nelson Chaney: |
All I know is this violates every canon of
respectable broadcasting. |
| Frank Hackett: |
We're not a respectable network, we're a whorehouse
network. And, we have to take whatever we can get. |
| Nelson Chaney: |
Well, I don't want any part of it, I don't
fancy myself the president of a whorehouse. |
| Frank Hackett: |
That's very commendable of you, Nelson. Now,
sit down, your indignation has been dually recorded. |
| ----- |
| Diana Christensen: |
All I want out of life is a 30 share and a
20 rating. |
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| Howard Beale: |
I have decided to kill myself. I'm going to
blow my brains out, right on this program, a week from today.
So, tune in next Tuesday, that should give the public relations
people a week to promote the show. You ought to get a Hell
of a rating out of that--a fifty share, easy. |
| ----- |
| Diana Christensen: |
[I] don't think I'll listen to any protestations
of high standards of journalism, when you're right down on
the streets soliciting audiences like the rest of us. Look,
all I'm saying is if you're gonna hustle, at least do it right. |
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| Nelson Chaney: |
The affiliates won't carry it. |
| Frank Hackett: |
The affiliates will kiss your ass if you can
hand them a hit show. |
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| Max Schumacher: |
You have a favorite restaurant? |
| Diana Christensen: |
I eat anything. |
| Max Schumacher: |
Son-of-a-bitch, I get a feeling I'm being made. |
| Diana Christensen: |
You are. |
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| Diana Christensen: |
The American people are turning sullen. They've
been clobbered on all sides by Vietnam, Watergate, the inflation,
the depression. They've turned off, shot up, and they've fu**ed
themselves limp, and nothing helps. |
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| Diana Christensen: |
I want a show developed, based on the activities
of a terrorist group: "Joseph Stalin and His Merry Band of
Bolsheviks." |
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| Diana Christensen: |
[Y]ou had a minute-and-a-half of that lady
riding a bike naked in Central Park. On the other hand, you
had less than a minute of hard national and international
news. |
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| Diana Christensen: |
I see you don't fancy my suggestions. |
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