- I'm gonna blow my brains out right on the air, right in the middle of the seven o'clock news. You'll get a hell of a rating, I'll guarantee you that. 50 share, easy.
- You think so?
- Sure.

— Howard Beale (Peter Finch), Max Schumacher (William Holden)

desperationhoward bealemax schumacherpeter finchsuicidewilliam holden

15 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:02:30.382 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I jump outta bed, throw my raincoat over my pajamas. I run downstairs.

- I run out in the street, hail a cab, and I say to the cabbie: Take me to the middle of the George Washington Bridge. And the cabbie turns around and he says: Don't do it, buddy! You're a young man. You got your whole life ahead of you!

- Didn't I ever tell you that one before?

- I'm gonna kill myself.

- Oh, shit, Howard.

- I'm gonna blow my brains out right on the air, right in the middle of the seven o'clock news. You'll get a hell of a rating, I'll guarantee you that. 50 share, easy.

- You think so?

- Sure.

- We could make a series out of it. Suicide of the Week. Hell, why limit ourselves? Execution of the Week.

- Terrorist of the Week.

- I love it. Suicides, assassinations, mad bombers, Mafia hit men, automobile smash-ups... The Death Hour. Great Sunday night show for the whole family. We'll wipe that fuckin' Disney right off the air.

- Let's do the Lennon deportation at the end of three.

- It strong enough to bump?

- In one, then.

[...]

Top rated lines from this movie

Hell, they already own half of England! So listen to me. Listen to me, goddamn it. The Arabs are simply buying us.
So if you want the truth, go to God. Go to your gurus. Go to yourselves. Because that's the only place you're ever gonna find any real truth.
It is the exalted flow of the space-time continuum save that it is spaceless and timeless and... of such loveliness.

MOVIE-SOUNDS.ORG - Download and listen to lines and quotes from movies which can be used as ringtones. A movie phrases and sayings search engine.

 

All the movie sound clips on this site are just short samples from the original sources, in mp3, wav or other popular audio formats. The copyrighted, unlicensed movie samples are shorter in comparison to the original movie. Samples do not exceed 10 seconds or less than 1% of the length of the original movie, which is shorter. All the sounds retain their original copyright as owned by their respective movie production companies (read the full disclaimer and disclosures)

Contact | Privacy policy