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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 street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman 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 Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!


Paddy Chayefsky


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He wrote the screenplay for the 1980 film but he is credited by his real first and middle name Sidney Aaron because of disputes with director Ken Russell. Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky (January 29 1923 – August 1 1981) was an American playwright screenwriter and novelist. Filmography
The True Glory (1945) uncredited with Garson Kanin
As Young as You Feel (1955) with Lamar Trotti
Marty (1955)
The Catered Affair (1956)
The Bachelor Party (1957)
The Goddess (1958)
Middle of the Night (1959)
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
Paint Your Wagon (with Alan Jay Lerner) (1969)
The Hospital (1971)
Network (1976)
Altered States (1980)
The Habakkuk Conspiracy (1983)


Television and stage plays
Television (selection)
1950-55 Danger
1951-52 Manhunt
1951-60 Goodyear Playhouse
1952-54 Philco Television Playhouse
1952 Holiday Song
1952 The Reluctant Citizen
1953 Printer's Measure
1953 Marty
1953 The Big Deal
1953 The Bachelor Party
1953 The Sixth Year
1953 Catch My Boy On Sunday
1954 The Mother
1954 Middle of the Night
1955 The Catered Affair
1956 The Great American Hoax
Stage
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As a screenwriter he received three Academy Awards for Marty (1955) The Hospital (1971) and Network (1976). Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky (January 29 1923 – August 1 1981) was an American playwright screenwriter and novelist. No one else would have dreamed of doing it.

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