Network Quote

Howard Beale : [ on the air ] I just ran out of bullshit.
Harry Hunter : [ picks up ringing phone in editing room ] Mr. Schumacher's right here, do you want to talk to him?
Howard Beale : Bullshit is all the reasons we give for living. If we can't think up reasons of our own, we always have the God bullshit.
Max Schumacher : [ on the phone ] Yeah, Tom, what is it?
Howard Beale : We don't know why we go through all this pointless pain, humiliation, and decay. So there better be someone somewhere who *does* know. That's the God bullshit.
Max Schumacher : He's saying that life is bullshit, and it is, so what are you screaming about? [ hangs up ]

Movie: Network

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