Middle-aged man reaffirming his middle-aged manhood and a terrified young woman with a father complex.

— Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway)

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

You can hear this line at 00:40:56.076 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- I seem to be inept at everything except my work. I'm good at my work. So I confine myself to that.

- All I want out of life is a 30 share and a 20 rating.

- You're married, surely?

- Twenty-five years.

- I have a married daughter in Seattle who's six months pregnant and a younger girl who's starting at Northwestern in January.

- Well, Max, here we are.

- Middle-aged man reaffirming his middle-aged manhood and a terrified young woman with a father complex.

- What sort of script do you think we can make out of this?

- Corridor gossip, says that you are Frank Hackett's backstage girl.

- Ha, ha. I'm not.

- Frank is a corporation man, body and soul. He has no loves, lusts or allegiances that are not consummately directed toward becoming a CCA board member. So why should he bother with me? I'm not even a stockholder.

- What about your loves, lusts and allegiances?

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