Network Monologues

Network (Howard)

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HOWARD: I don”t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. Everybody”s out of work or scared of losing their job, the dollar buys a nickel”s worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter, punks are running wild in the streets, and there”s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do and there”s no end to it. We know the air”s unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat and we sit and watch our teevees while some local newscaster tells us today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that”s the way it”s supposed to be. We all know things are bad. Worse than bad. They”re crazy. It”s like everything”s going crazy. So we don”t go out any more. We sit in the house and slowly the world we live in gets smaller and all we ask is, please, at least leave us alone in our own living rooms. Let me have my toaster and TV and my hairdryer and my steel-belted radials and I won”t say anything, just leave us alone. Well, I”m not going to leave you alone. I want you to get mad. (He gets up from his desk and walks to the front of the set.)I don”t want you to protest. I don”t want you to riot. I don”t want you to write to your congressmen. Because I wouldn”t know what to tell you to write. I don”t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the defense budget and the Russians and crime in the street. All I know is, first you”ve got to get mad. You”ve got to say: “I”m a human being, goddammit. My life has value.” So I want you to get up right now. I want you to get out of your chairs and go to the window. Right now. I want you to go to the window, open it and stick your head out and yell. I want you to yell, “I”m mad as hell and I”m not going to take this any more.”Get up from your chairs. Go to the window. Open it. Stick out your head and yell. And keep yelling. First you”ve got to get mad. When you”re mad enough we”ll figure out what to do. Stick your head out and yell, “I”m mad as hell and I”m not going to take it any more.” “I”m mad as hell and I”m not going to take it any more.” “I”m mad as hell and I”m not going to take it any more.”That”s it. I”ve had it with the foreclosures and the oil crisis and the unemployment and the corruption of finance and the inertia of politics and the right to be alive and the right to be angry. I want to hear the little man and woman – I want to hear you now – go to your windows – yell out so they can hear you – yell and don”t stop yelling – so the whole world can hear you – above the chaos and degradation the apathy and white noise.They”re yelling in Chicago. Yell, yell, and then we”ll work out what to do about terrorism and the oil crisis. Stick your head out of the window and shout it with me: “I”m mad as hell and I”m not going to take it any more. I”m mad as hell and I”m not gonna take this any more. I”M MAD AS HELL AND I”M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE.”*For Paddy Chayefsky”s original film version of this monologue, click here.More Monologues from “Network”

I don”t want you to protest. I don”t want you to riot. I don”t want you to write to your congressmen. Because I wouldn”t know what to tell you to write. I don”t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the defense budget and the Russians and crime in the street. All I know is, first you”ve got to get mad. You”ve got to say: “I”m a human being, goddammit. My life has value.” So I want you to get up right now. I want you to get out of your chairs and go to the window. Right now. I want you to go to the window, open it and stick your head out and yell. I want you to yell, “I”m mad as hell and I”m not going to take this any more.”Get up from your chairs. Go to the window. Open it. Stick out your head and yell. And keep yelling. First you”ve got to get mad. When you”re mad enough we”ll figure out what to do. Stick your head out and yell, “I”m mad as hell and I”m not going to take it any more.” “I”m mad as hell and I”m not going to take it any more.” “I”m mad as hell and I”m not going to take it any more.”That”s it. I”ve had it with the foreclosures and the oil crisis and the unemployment and the corruption of finance and the inertia of politics and the right to be alive and the right to be angry. I want to hear the little man and woman – I want to hear you now – go to your windows – yell out so they can hear you – yell and don”t stop yelling – so the whole world can hear you – above the chaos and degradation the apathy and white noise.They”re yelling in Chicago. Yell, yell, and then we”ll work out what to do about terrorism and the oil crisis. Stick your head out of the window and shout it with me: “I”m mad as hell and I”m not going to take it any more. I”m mad as hell and I”m not gonna take this any more. I”M MAD AS HELL AND I”M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE.”*For Paddy Chayefsky”s original film version of this monologue, click here.More Monologues from “Network”

Get up from your chairs. Go to the window. Open it. Stick out your head and yell. And keep yelling. First you”ve got to get mad. When you”re mad enough we”ll figure out what to do. Stick your head out and yell, “I”m mad as hell and I”m not going to take it any more.” “I”m mad as hell and I”m not going to take it any more.” “I”m mad as hell and I”m not going to take it any more.”That”s it. I”ve had it with the foreclosures and the oil crisis and the unemployment and the corruption of finance and the inertia of politics and the right to be alive and the right to be angry. I want to hear the little man and woman – I want to hear you now – go to your windows – yell out so they can hear you – yell and don”t stop yelling – so the whole world can hear you – above the chaos and degradation the apathy and white noise.They”re yelling in Chicago. Yell, yell, and then we”ll work out what to do about terrorism and the oil crisis. Stick your head out of the window and shout it with me: “I”m mad as hell and I”m not going to take it any more. I”m mad as hell and I”m not gonna take this any more. I”M MAD AS HELL AND I”M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE.”*For Paddy Chayefsky”s original film version of this monologue, click here.More Monologues from “Network”

That”s it. I”ve had it with the foreclosures and the oil crisis and the unemployment and the corruption of finance and the inertia of politics and the right to be alive and the right to be angry. I want to hear the little man and woman – I want to hear you now – go to your windows – yell out so they can hear you – yell and don”t stop yelling – so the whole world can hear you – above the chaos and degradation the apathy and white noise.They”re yelling in Chicago. Yell, yell, and then we”ll work out what to do about terrorism and the oil crisis. Stick your head out of the window and shout it with me: “I”m mad as hell and I”m not going to take it any more. I”m mad as hell and I”m not gonna take this any more. I”M MAD AS HELL AND I”M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE.”*For Paddy Chayefsky”s original film version of this monologue, click here.More Monologues from “Network”

They”re yelling in Chicago. Yell, yell, and then we”ll work out what to do about terrorism and the oil crisis. Stick your head out of the window and shout it with me: “I”m mad as hell and I”m not going to take it any more. I”m mad as hell and I”m not gonna take this any more. I”M MAD AS HELL AND I”M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE.”*For Paddy Chayefsky”s original film version of this monologue, click here.More Monologues from “Network”

*For Paddy Chayefsky”s original film version of this monologue, click here.More Monologues from “Network”

Network (Howard)

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HOWARD: I don”t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It”s a depression. Everybody”s out of work or scared of losing their job, the dollar buys a nickel”s worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter, punks are running wild in the streets, and there”s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there”s no end to it. We know the air”s unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit and watch our tee-vees while some local newscaster tells us today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that”s the way it”s supposed to be. We all know things are bad. Worse than bad. They”re crazy. It”s like every thing”s going crazy. So we don”t go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we live in gets smaller, and all we ask is please, at least leave us alone in our own living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my tee-vee and my hair-dryer and my steel-belted radials, and I won”t say anything, just leave us alone. Well, I”m not going to leave you alone. I want you to get mad.I don”t want you to riot. I don”t want you to protest. I don”t want you to write your congressmen. Because I wouldn”t know what to tell you to write. I don”t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the defense budget and the Russians and crime in the street. All I know is first you got to get mad. You”ve got to say: “I”m mad as hell and I”m not going to take this any more. I”m a human being, goddammit. My life has value.” So I want you to get up now. I want you to get out of your chairs and go to the window. Right now. I want you to go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell. I want you to yell: “I”m mad as hell and I”m not going to take this any more!”*For the version that was done in the Broadway play starring Bryan Cranston, click here.More Monologues from “Network”

I don”t want you to riot. I don”t want you to protest. I don”t want you to write your congressmen. Because I wouldn”t know what to tell you to write. I don”t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the defense budget and the Russians and crime in the street. All I know is first you got to get mad. You”ve got to say: “I”m mad as hell and I”m not going to take this any more. I”m a human being, goddammit. My life has value.” So I want you to get up now. I want you to get out of your chairs and go to the window. Right now. I want you to go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell. I want you to yell: “I”m mad as hell and I”m not going to take this any more!”*For the version that was done in the Broadway play starring Bryan Cranston, click here.More Monologues from “Network”

*For the version that was done in the Broadway play starring Bryan Cranston, click here.More Monologues from “Network”

Network (Howard)

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HOWARD: (serene, sits behind his desk) What”s happening to me, Max, isn”t mensurate in psychiatric terms. This is not a psychotic episode. It is a cleansing moment of clarity. (stands, an imbued man) I am imbued, Max. I am imbued with some special spirit. It”s not a religious feeling at all. It is a shocking eruption of great electrical energy: I feel vivid and flashing as if suddenly I had been plugged into some great cosmic electromagnetic field. I feel connected to all living things, to flowers, birds, to all the animals of the world and even to some great unseen living force, what I think the Hindus call prana. It is not a breakdown. I have never felt so orderly in my life! It is a shattering and beautiful sensation! It is the exalted flow of the space-time continuum, save that it is spaceless and timeless and of such loveliness! I feel on the verge of some great ultimate truth. You will not take me off the air for now or for any other spaceless time!More Monologues from “Network”