“I just ran out of bullshit.” – Howard Beale, Network ... Movie Quotes Database

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]

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