4 Best Max Monologues

Category: Movie Role: Max From: Network

MAX: Must”ve been 1950 then. I was at NBC. Morning News. Associate producer. I was a kid, twenty-six years old. Anyway, they were building the lower level on the George Washington Bridge, and we were doing a remote there. Except nobody told me! 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, throw my raincoat over my pajamas, run down the stairs. I get out in the street. I flag a cab. I jump in. I say: “Take me to the middle of the George Washington Bridge!” (tears streaming down his cheeks) The driver turns around. He says, don”t do it, buddy. (so weak now he can barely talk) He says, you”re a young man. You got your whole life ahead of you.*For the version that was done in the Broadway play starring Bryan Cranston, (by a different character), click here.More Monologues from “Network”RelatedShareTweetPin

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

Category: Movie Role: Max From: Network

MAX: (exploding off the chair) I”m tired of this hysteria about Howard Beale! (raging around the room) And I”m tired of finding you on the goddamned phone every time I turn around! I”m tired of being an accessory in your life! And I”m tired of pretending to write this dumb book about my maverick days in those great early years of television! Every executive fired from a network in the last twenty years has written this dumb book about the great early days of television! Nobody wants another dumb book about the great goddamned early days of television!After six months of living with you, I”m turning into one of your scripts. But this isn”t a script, Diana. There”s some real actual life going on here. I went to visit my wife today because she”s in a state of depression, so depressed my daughter flew in from Seattle to be with her. And I feel lousy about that. I feel lousy about the pain I”ve caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken and all those things you think sentimental but which my generation called simple human decency. And I miss my home because I”m beginning to get scared s -less. It”s all suddenly closer to the end than to the beginning, and death is suddenly a perceptible thing to me, with definable features. You”ve got a man going through primal doubts, Diana, and you”ve got to cope with it. Because I”m not some guy discussing male menopause on the Barbara Walters show. I”m the man you presumably love. I live right here. I”m part of your life. I”m real. You can”t switch to another channel.I just want you to love me, Diana. I just want you to love me, primal doubts and all. You understand that, don”t you?*For the version that was done in the Broadway play starring Bryan Cranston, click here.More Monologues from “Network”RelatedShareTweetPin

After six months of living with you, I”m turning into one of your scripts. But this isn”t a script, Diana. There”s some real actual life going on here. I went to visit my wife today because she”s in a state of depression, so depressed my daughter flew in from Seattle to be with her. And I feel lousy about that. I feel lousy about the pain I”ve caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken and all those things you think sentimental but which my generation called simple human decency. And I miss my home because I”m beginning to get scared s -less. It”s all suddenly closer to the end than to the beginning, and death is suddenly a perceptible thing to me, with definable features. You”ve got a man going through primal doubts, Diana, and you”ve got to cope with it. Because I”m not some guy discussing male menopause on the Barbara Walters show. I”m the man you presumably love. I live right here. I”m part of your life. I”m real. You can”t switch to another channel.I just want you to love me, Diana. I just want you to love me, primal doubts and all. You understand that, don”t you?*For the version that was done in the Broadway play starring Bryan Cranston, click here.More Monologues from “Network”RelatedShareTweetPin

I just want you to love me, Diana. I just want you to love me, primal doubts and all. You understand that, don”t you?*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

Category: Movie Role: Max From: Network

MAX: It”s too late, Diana! There”s nothing left in you that I can live with! You”re one of Howard”s humanoids, and, if I stay with you, I”ll be destroyed! Like Howard Beale was destroyed! Like Laureen Hobbs was destroyed! Like everything you and the institution of television touch is destroyed! You are television incarnate, Diana, indifferent to suffering, insensitive to joy. All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality. War, murder, death are all the same to you as bottles of beer. The daily business of life is a corrupt comedy. You even shatter the sensations of time and space into split-seconds and instant replays. You are madness, Diana, virulent madness, and everything you touch dies with you. Well, not me! Not while I can still feel pleasure and pain and love!More Monologues from “Network”RelatedShareTweetPin

Category: Movie Role: Max From: Network

MAX: Well, I”m just tired by all this hysteria about Howard Beale. And I”m tired of finding you on the goddam phone every time I turn around. I”m tired of being an accessory in your life. After six months of living with you, I”m turning into one of your scripts. But this isn”t a script, Diana. There”s some real actual life going on here. I went to visit my wife today. She”s so depressed my daughter flew in from Seattle to be with her.Yes, I feel lousy about that. I feel lousy about the pain I”ve caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken and all those things you think sentimental but which my generation called simple human decency. And I miss my home because I”m beginning to get scared s -less. It”s all suddenly closer to the end than to the beginning, and death is suddenly a perceptible thing to me. You”ve got a man going through primal doubts, Diana, and you”ve got to cope with it. Because I”m not some guy discussing male menopause on the Barbara Walters show. I”m the man you presumably love. I”m part of your life. I live here. I”m real. You can”t switch to another station.I just want you to love me. I just want you to love me, primal doubts and all. We”re born in terror and we live in terror. Life can be endured only as an act of faith and the only act of faith any of us are capable of is love. You understand that, don”t you? (The phone rings. They stare at one another. Finally she picks it up.) You are a wasteland, Diana.*For Paddy Chayefsky”s original film version of this monologue, click here.More Monologues from “Network”RelatedShareTweetPin

Yes, I feel lousy about that. I feel lousy about the pain I”ve caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken and all those things you think sentimental but which my generation called simple human decency. And I miss my home because I”m beginning to get scared s -less. It”s all suddenly closer to the end than to the beginning, and death is suddenly a perceptible thing to me. You”ve got a man going through primal doubts, Diana, and you”ve got to cope with it. Because I”m not some guy discussing male menopause on the Barbara Walters show. I”m the man you presumably love. I”m part of your life. I live here. I”m real. You can”t switch to another station.I just want you to love me. I just want you to love me, primal doubts and all. We”re born in terror and we live in terror. Life can be endured only as an act of faith and the only act of faith any of us are capable of is love. You understand that, don”t you? (The phone rings. They stare at one another. Finally she picks it up.) You are a wasteland, Diana.*For Paddy Chayefsky”s original film version of this monologue, click here.More Monologues from “Network”RelatedShareTweetPin

I just want you to love me. I just want you to love me, primal doubts and all. We”re born in terror and we live in terror. Life can be endured only as an act of faith and the only act of faith any of us are capable of is love. You understand that, don”t you? (The phone rings. They stare at one another. Finally she picks it up.) You are a wasteland, Diana.*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