5 Best Howard Monologues – Opening Monologue

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Howard)

Category: Movie Role: Howard From: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Gold in Mexico? Why sure there is! Not ten days from here, by Rayo Catclavin, is a mountain waiting for the right guy to come along discover a treasure then tickle it if it lets him have. The question is, is he the right guy? Ah, real bonanzas are few and far between. They take a lot finding. Say, answer me this one will ya? Why is gold worth some twenty bucks an ounce? … A thousand men, say, go searching for gold, after six months one of them’s lucky. One out of a thousand, his find represents not only his own labor, but that of 999 others to boot. That’s uh, 6000 months, uh, five hundred years. Scrabbling over a mountain, going hungry and thirsty. An ounce of gold, Mister, is worth what it is because of the human labor that went into the finding and getting of it. … There’s no other explanation mister, gold itself ain’t good for nothing except for making jewelry with or gold teeth. Ah, gold is a devilish sort of thing anyway. You start out, you tell yourself you’d be satisfied at 25,000, so help me lord, and cross my heart. Fine resolution. After months of sweating yourself dizzy, and growing short of provisions, and finding nothing, you finally come down to fifteen thousand. Then ten. Finally you say “Lord, let me just find five thousand dollars, I’ll never ask for anything more for the rest of my life!” … Yeah, here in this joint it seems like a lot but I’ll tell you, if you was to make a real strike, you couldn’t be dragged away. Not even the threat of miserable death would keep you from trying to add ten thousand more. Ten, you’d wanna get twenty-five, twenty-five you’d wanna get fifty, fifty, a hundred. Like roulette. One more turn, you know, always one more. … When the piles of gold begin to grow, that’s when the trouble starts.

Network (Howard)

Category: Play Role: Howard From: Network

HOWARD: Twenty-five years, Max. I came over from CBS in “51. Can you believe it? They were just building the lower level on the George Washington Bridge – I remember just after I started they were doing a remote there. Except nobody told me. Then ten after seven in the morning, I get a call. “Where the hell are you? You”re supposed to be on the George Washington Bridge!” I jump out of bed, run downstairs, I get out in the street, I flag a cab, jump in. I say, “Take me to the middle of the George Washington Bridge!” The driver turns round. He says, “Don”t do it, buddy. You”re a young man, you”ve got your whole life ahead of you.” (They break into uncontrollable laughter.) I think I”m going to kill myself. I”m going to blow my brains out right on air, right in the middle of the seven o”clock news. “The Death Hour”. A great Sunday-night show for all the family. Wipe Disney right off the air.*For Paddy Chayefsky”s original film version of this monologue (by a different character), click here.More Monologues from “Network”RelatedShareTweetPin

*For Paddy Chayefsky”s original film version of this monologue (by a different character), click here.More Monologues from “Network”RelatedShareTweetPin

Network (Howard)

Category: Play Role: Howard From: Network

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”RelatedShareTweetPin

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”RelatedShareTweetPin

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”RelatedShareTweetPin

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”RelatedShareTweetPin

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”RelatedShareTweetPin

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

Network (Howard)

Category: Movie Role: Howard From: Network

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”RelatedShareTweetPin

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”RelatedShareTweetPin

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

Network (Howard)

Category: Movie Role: Howard From: Network

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”RelatedShareTweetPin