Howard Beale Movie Quotes & Lines – 62 Classics (+ Audio)

Updated: Mar 1, 2026

Hear the man who made the TV world tremble – Howard Beale’s legendary quotes from the 1976 film Network, freely downloadable as WAV or MP3.

1 I'm as mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore!

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

2 I'm going to blow my brains out, right on this programme, a week from today. -Ten seconds to commercial. -So tune in next Tuesday. That should give the public-relations people a week to promote the show.

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

3 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 _.

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

4 So I don't have any _ left. I just ran out of it, you see.

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

5 And the voice said to me, I want you to tell the people the truth. Not an easy thing to do because the people don't want to know the truth. And I said, You're kidding. What the hell should I know about the truth?

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

6 And I said, Why me? And the voice said, Because you're on television, dummy.

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

7 I'm imbued, Max. I'm imbued with some special spirit. It's not a religious feeling at all. It's a shocking eruption of great electrical energy. I feel vivid and flashing, as if suddenly I'd been plugged into some great electromagnetic field.

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

8 I feel connected to all living things. To flowers, birds, all the animals of the world and even to some great, unseen living force. What I think the Hindus call prana.

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

9 It is the exalted flow of the space-time continuum save that it is spaceless and timeless and... of such loveliness.

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

10 And you will not take me off the air for now, or for any other spaceless time!

Peter Finch in Network (1976)