I'm the one whose ass is going on the line.

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

You can hear this line at 00:27:26.570 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- Frank, let's not go to committee on this. It's twenty after ten. We want Beale in that studio by half past six. We don't want to lose the momentum.

- For God's sake, Diana, we're talking about putting a manifestly irresponsible man on national television.

- I'd like to talk to Legal Affairs at least and Herb Thackeray and certainly Joe Donnelly in Standards and Practices.

- And you know, I'm going to be eyeball to eyeball with Mr. Ruddy on this.

- If I'm going to the mat with Ruddy, I wanna make sure of some of my ground.

- I'm the one whose ass is going on the line.

- I'll get back to you, Diana.

- I don't believe this.

- I don't believe the top brass of a national television network are sitting around their Caesar salads...

- The top brass of a bankrupt national television network with projected losses of close to $150 million this year.

- I don't care how bankrupt!

- You can't be seriously proposing, and the rest of us seriously considering putting on a pornographic Network News show. The FCC'd kill us.

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