Max Schumacher Movie Quotes & Lines – 42 Classics (+ Audio) - page 2

Updated: Mar 1, 2026

William Holden as Max Schumacher in Network (1976)

Max Schumacher’s best lines from Network (1976) – free WAV or MP3 downloads.

11 Do you want to be an angry prophet denouncing the hypocrisies of our times? -Yeah, I think I'd like to be an angry prophet denouncing the hypocrisies of our times. -Then grab it. Grab it!

Max Schumacher (William Holden), Howard Beale (Peter Finch) in Network (1976)

12 Do you have a favorite restaurant? -I eat anything.

William Holden as Max Schumacher; Faye Dunaway as Diana Christensen in Network (1976)

13 Ah, I've got to warn you, I don't do anything on my first date. -We'll see.

William Holden as Max Schumacher; Faye Dunaway as Diana Christensen in Network (1976)

14 Howard, I'm taking you off the air. I think you're having a breakdown. Require treatment.

William Holden in Network (1976)

15 He could be jumping off a roof for all I know. The man is insane. He's not responsible for himself. He needs care and treatment. And all you grave robbers think about is that he's a hit.

William Holden in Network (1976)

16 I'm gonna spread this whole reeking business in every newspaper, on every network, group and affiliate in this country. I'm gonna make a lot of noise about this. -Great. We need all the press we can get.

William Holden as Max Schumacher; Robert Duvall as Frank Hackett in Network (1976)

17 All I know is, I can't get you out of my mind.

William Holden in Network (1976)

18 Every goddamned executive fired from a network in the last 20 years has written this dumb book about the great early years of television. And nobody wants a dumb, damn, goddamn book about the early days of television.

William Holden in Network (1976)

19 I feel guilty and conscience-stricken and all of those things that you think sentimental, but which my generation calls simple, human decency.

William Holden in Network (1976)

20 And I miss my home because I'm beginning to get scared shitless. Because all of a sudden it's closer to the end than it is to the beginning. And death is suddenly a perceptible thing to me with definable features.

William Holden in Network (1976)