Mankiewicz Quotes

#1. Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.

Richard Widmark

#2. There's nothing as real as money.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#3. The most important part of design is finding all the issues to be resolved. The rest are details

Soumeet Lanka

#4. I want to look at someone and know that every need and wish and desire i have matches his, not that my every need and wish and desire clashes with his. Unification should be the overall theme of a relationship.

Sara Raasch

#5. If people don't sit at Chaplin's feet, he goes out and stands where they are sitting.

Herman J. Mankiewicz

#6. The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#7. I'm still a fiscal conservative, and I'm inclined to pay down debt.

Jim Flaherty

#8. There, but for the grace of God, goes God.

Herman J. Mankiewicz

#9. There are millions to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. Don't let thisget around.

Herman J. Mankiewicz

#10. You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker.

Herman J. Mankiewicz

#11. Music is the eye of the ear.

Thomas Draxe

#12. Once you learn how to do something, you don't lose it. Unless you die.

Shaquille O'Neal

#13. The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action.

Michael Franti

#14. God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force.

Lauryn Hill

#15. The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower.

Frank Mankiewicz

#16. Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#17. Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#18. Fall in love with life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. I suppose because we have no ruins and no curiosities, said Virginia satirically.

Oscar Wilde

#20. Imagine
the whole world wired to Harry Cohn's ass!

Herman J. Mankiewicz

#21. Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!

Herman J. Mankiewicz

#22. There's
Something
Wrong With
Your Character
If Opportunity
Controls Your
Loyalty

Trent Shelton

#23. In my last two years in high school, my face was pocked with pimples, I stammered when I spoke; if I made a mistake, I blushed furiously, and when nervous, as I was in the company of girls, I perspired freely.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#24. John Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties.

Frank Mankiewicz

#25. 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

#26. We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children.

Herman J. Mankiewicz

#27. I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they're often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#28. All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#29. Make a note that one should never run the applications as a root user. This is a huge security flaw in itself as the application crashes, which can harm the OS itself.

Shalabh Aggarwal

#30. You have a wild young heart. Right now, it is like a caged bird that batters itself against the bars. To struggle harder will only hurt you more. Wait, be patient. Your time will come to fly. And when it does, you must be strong, not bloodied and weary.

Robin Hobb

#31. Ignore everything a politician says before the word but.

Frank Mankiewicz

#32. I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#33. In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, getting rich, and whipping servants. But you have to shoot him in the end.

Herman J. Mankiewicz

#34. I could see jabs from his flashlight cutting into the woods on either side of me. He was back there, somewhere. The light beam was like a knife and I didn't want it on my back.

Augusten Burroughs

#35. There is no such thing as realistic dialogue. If you [simply recorded] the real conversation of any people and played it back from the stage, it would be impossible to listen to. It would be redundant ... The good dialogue writer is the one who can give you the impression of real speech.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#36. I'm not biting my fingernails.
I'm biting my knuckles.
I finished the fingernails months ago.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#38. [Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#39. 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

#40. I used to go into rooms of older executives and try to pitch talk show ideas and when I was writing as a journalist I would pitch ideas for my articles and I definitely understand that excitement of a pitch and what that is to be young and a woman and trying to make your voice heard.

Lily Collins

#41. Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.

Gautama Buddha

#42. I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz