Ned Beatty
Birthday:
Birthplace:
Louisville, Kentucky
Portly American character actor Ned Beatty originally planned to enter the clergy, but after appearing in a single high-school play, he changed his mind and decided to become a thespian instead. By his early twenties, Beatty was playing Broadway and it was his work in the play The Great White Hope that attracted the interest of film director John Boorman, who cast him as one of the four main stars in his gripping backwoods thriller Deliverance (1972). Forever immortalized in the notorious "squeal like a pig" rape scene, Beatty subsequently went on to become one of the screen's more prolific supporting actors, frequently appearing in up to four films per year. His more notable film work includes Nashville (1975), All the President's Men (1976), Network (for which he earned an Oscar nomination), The Big Easy (1987), Hear My Song (1991), A Prelude to a Kiss (1992), Radioland Murders (1994), and He Got Game (1998). In 1999, he could be seen as a small-town sheriff in the Robert Altman ensemble film Cookie's Fortune.At the start of the 21st century the always-employed character actor continued to work steadily in projects as diverse as Roughing It, Where the Red Fern Grows, Shooter, and Charlie Wilson's War. He joined the Pixar family when he voiced Lotso, the bad guy in Toy Story 3, and he provided the voice of Mayor in 2011's Oscar winning animated feature Rango.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Superman: La PelÃcula |
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— | 2018 |
58% | The Big Ask |
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— | 2014 |
94% | Casting By |
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$14.5k | 2013 |
15% | Baggage Claim |
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$17.3M | 2013 |
74% | Rampart |
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$1M | 2012 |
88% | Rango |
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$123.2M | 2011 |
98% | Toy Story 3 |
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$415M | 2010 |
55% | The Killer Inside Me |
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$0.2M | 2010 |
58% | In the Electric Mist |
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— | 2009 |
82% | Charlie Wilson's War |
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$66.7M | 2007 |
53% | The Walker |
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$43.7k | 2007 |
47% | Shooter |
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$47M | 2007 |
85% | Sweet Land |
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$1.3M | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Friendly Fire |
|
— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | The Wool Cap |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Where the Red Fern Grows |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Roughing It |
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— | 2002 |
67% | Thunderpants |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | I Was a Rat |
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— | 2001 |
88% | Spring Forward |
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— | 2000 |
86% | Homicide: The Movie |
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— | 2000 |
50% | Life |
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— | 1999 |
86% | Cookie's Fortune |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | The Curse of Inferno |
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— | 1998 |
81% | He Got Game |
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— | 1998 |
50% | Ed and His Dead Mother |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Gulliver's Travels |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Crazy Horse |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | The Affair |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Streets of Laredo |
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— | 1995 |
26% | Just Cause |
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— | 1995 |
24% | Radioland Murders |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart |
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— | 1994 |
78% | Rudy |
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— | 1993 |
63% | Prelude to a Kiss |
|
— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | T Bone N Weasel |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Lincoln: The Making of a President, 1860-1862 |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Lincoln: Now He Belongs to the Ages, 1865 |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Lincoln: I Want to Finish This Job, 1864 |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Angel Square |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Lincoln: The Pivotal Year, 1863 |
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— | 1992 |
90% | Hear My Song |
|
— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Blind Vision |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Going Under |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Illusions |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Big Bad John |
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— | 1990 |
13% | Captain America |
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— | 1990 |
0% | Repossessed |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | A Cry in the Wild |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Last Train Home |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Spy |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Ministry of Vengeance |
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— | 1989 |
14% | Chattahoochee |
|
— | 1989 |
22% | Physical Evidence |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Sex and Buttered Popcorn |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Black Water |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Purple People Eater |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Go Toward the Light |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Time Trackers |
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— | 1988 |
33% | The Unholy |
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— | 1988 |
62% | Switching Channels |
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— | 1988 |
40% | Midnight Crossing |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Shadows in the Storm |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Rolling Vengeance |
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— | 1987 |
74% | The Fourth Protocol |
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— | 1987 |
89% | The Big Easy |
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— | 1987 |
80% | Restless Natives |
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— | 1986 |
86% | Back to School |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | Konrad |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | Celebrity |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | The Trouble with Spies |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | Robert Kennedy and His Times |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | Touched |
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— | 1983 |
20% | Stroker Ace |
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— | 1983 |
8% | The Toy |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | Replikator: Cloned to Kill |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | A Woman Called Golda |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | Pray TV |
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— | 1982 |
86% | Superman II |
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— | 1981 |
22% | The Incredible Shrinking Woman (La IncreÃble Mujer Diminuta) |
|
— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | The American Success Company |
|
— | 1980 |
73% | Hopscotch |
|
— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | All God's Children |
|
— | 1980 |
42% | 1941 |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Promises in the Dark |
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— | 1979 |
87% | Wise Blood |
|
— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Friendly Fire |
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— | 1979 |
94% | Superman |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | The Great Bank Hoax (Shenanigans)(The Great Georgia Bank Hoax) |
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— | 1978 |
63% | Gray Lady Down |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | A Question of Love |
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— | 1978 |
100% | Alambrista! |
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— | 1977 |
15% | Exorcist II: The Heretic |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Our Town |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | The Hunter |
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— | 1977 |
81% | Silver Streak |
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— | 1976 |
91% | Network |
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— | 1976 |
64% | The Big Bus |
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— | 1976 |
94% | All the President's Men |
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— | 1976 |
86% | Mikey and Nicky |
|
— | 1976 |
91% | Nashville |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | The Deadly Tower |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | The Execution of Private Slovik |
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— | 1974 |
86% | White Lightning |
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— | 1973 |
67% | The Last American Hero |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | The Thief Who Came to Dinner |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | Dying Room Only |
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— | 1973 |
80% | The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean |
|
— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Cancel My Reservation |
|
— | 1972 |
89% | Deliverance |
|
— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Footsteps |
|
— | 1972 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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76% |
Roseanne
1988-2018
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order
1990-2010
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No Score Yet |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000-2015
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91% |
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993-1999
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No Score Yet |
The Boys (1993)
1993
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No Score Yet |
Trial: The Price of Passion
1992
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No Score Yet |
Highway to Heaven
1984-1989
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No Score Yet |
Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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No Score Yet |
The Waltons
1972-1981
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No Score Yet |
The Streets of San Francisco
1972-1977
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No Score Yet |
The Rockford Files
1974-1980
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No Score Yet |
Gunsmoke
1955-1975
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No Score Yet |
M*A*S*H
1972-1983
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Quotes from Ned Beatty's Characters
Myerson: | Now I know what the FBI stands for: Fucking Ballbusting Imbeciles. |
Murph: | Goodbye, fair workplace. |
Arthur Jensen: | Valhalla, Mr. Beale. Please, sit down. |
Arthur Jensen: | How are you now? |
Howard Beale: | I'm as mad as a hatter. |
Arthur Jensen: | Who isn't? |
Arthur Jensen: | Good morning, Beale. They tell me you're a madman. |
Arthur Jensen: | I started as a salesman, Mr. Beale. I sold sewing machines and automobile parts, hair brushes, and electronic equipment. They say I can sell anything. I'd like to try to sell something to you. |
Howard Beale: | Why me? |
Arthur Jensen: | Because you're on television, dummy. Sixty million people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday. |
Howard Beale: | I have seen the face of God. |
Arthur Jensen: | You just might be right, Mr. Beale. |
Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear: | Spare parts, super glue, and enough fresh batteries to choke a Hungry- Hungry Hippo. |
Rango: | For as long as we have water, we have a town. |
Mayor: | Mr. Rango is right, as long as we have water we have some hope. |
Bobby Trippe: | Weeeeeeeeeee!!! Weeeeeeeeeeee!!! |
Bobby Trippe: | Weeeeeeeeeee! Weeeeeeeeeeee! |
Uncle Benny: | Shield that 'gator, no regrets later. |
Uncle Benny: | From the onset of puberty, what occupies 90% of our time is sex, right? |
Lester Boyle: | I'll bet the farm that Willis doesn't have AB negative blood. |
Otis Tucker: | Now how do you know that? |
Lester Boyle: | Cause I've fished with him. |
Lester Boyle: | Break an arm! |
Eddie "The Expert" Pitts: | How do you know for sure he's innocent? |
Lester Boyle: | Because I've fished with him. |
Mayor: | Control the water, you control everything. |
Senator Charles F. Meachum: | I am a US Senator |
Senator Charles F. Meachum: | I am a United States Senator! |
Bob Lee Swagger: | Exactly |
Bob Lee Swagger: | Exactly. |
Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear: | He can't hurt ya no more. |
Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear: | You ain't goin' nowhere! |
Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear: | You ain't leavin' Sunnyside! |
Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear: | Welcome to Sunnyside, folks. |
Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear: | Who's your kid now, sheriff? |
Lotso: | Well, speak of the devil. |
Lotso: | You're a piece of plastic, you were made to be thrown away. |
Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear: | Well hello there, I thought I heard new voices. Welcome to Sunnyside, folks. |
Lotso: | Where's your kid now, Sheriff! |
Lotso: | She never loved me! |
Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear: | Let's show our new folks where they'll be staying. |
Lotso: | Sheriff, the button, help please! |
Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear: | Well hello there, I'm Lots-o'-Hugging Bear, but please, call me Lotso. |
Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear: | Big Baby wait! |
Lotso: | She replaced us. |
Woody: | No, Lotso. She replaced you! |
Lotso: | She replaced us! |
Mountain Man: | SQUEAL LIKE A PIG! |
Mountain Man: | Squeal like a pig! |
Bobby Trippe: | *pig noises* |
Bobby Trippe: | [squeals like a pig] |
Lotso: | You've got a playdate with destiny! |
Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear: | Stop being such a baby! |
Andy: | so you're bonnie? i'm andy |
Andy: | So you're bonnie? I'm andy |
Lotso: | WHERE'S YOUR KID NOW SHERIFF?!?! |
Lotso: | Where's your kid now, sheriff? |
Lotso: | not him, i think this potato needs to learn himself some manners, take him to the box! |
Lotso: | Not him, I think this potato needs to learn himself some manners, take him to the box! |
Rex: | AT LAST I'M GONNA GET PLAYED WITH! |
Rex: | At last I'm gonna get played with! |
Lotso: | She's a Barbie doll, Ken, there's a hundred million just like her! |
Lotso: | She's a Barbie doll, Ken. There's a hundred million just like her! |
Ken: | ...not to me, there is not. |
Ken: | Not to me, there's not. |
Arthur Jensen: | You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it! Is that clear? You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU... WILL... ATONE! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that... perfect world... in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel. |
Arthur Jensen: | You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it! Is that clear? You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU, WILL, ATONE! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that... perfect world... in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel. |
Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear: | Well, you see Sweet Potato, you ain't going no where... |
Mrs. Potato Head: | Who you call'n Sweet Potato, I have over 30 accessories, and I demand respect! |
Lotso: | Where's your kid now, Sheriff? |