Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All About Eve (1950)

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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

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

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

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

Joseph L. Mankiewicz