Joseph L. Mankiewicz Quotes

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Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
My native habitat is the theatre. I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and a commentator. I am essential to the theatre – as ants to a picnic, as the boll weevil to a cotton field.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
I have a lot to be sad about. Not bitter in any way. But I think it can be fairly said that I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Critics are essential to the theater: as ants to a picnic, as boll weevils to a cotton field.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Everybody fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
Bette Davis speaking

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
I'm not [biting my fingernails]. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
I got a job at Metro and went in to see Louis Mayer, who told me he wanted me to be a producer. I said I wanted to write and direct. He said, "No, you have to produce first, you have to crawl before you can walk." Which is as good a definition of producing as I ever heard.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
I am never quite sure whether I am one of the cinema's elder statesmen or just the oldest whore on the beat.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
So many people know me.
I wish I did.
I wish someone would tell me about me.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows what to do all the time, God, she wears clothes well.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz