Quotes by Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Page 1

There's nothing as real as money.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz / Film Director
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All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz / Film Director
Hundred
Three
Years
Hundred Years
Playwrights
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[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz / Film Director
Paid
Secretary
World
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I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz / Film Director
Essentials
Picnics
Theatre
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So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz / Film Director
Know Me
People
Wish
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Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz / Film Director
Money
Class
Salary
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I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz / Film Director
Collapse
Ends
Talking
Picture
Rise
Beginning
Beginning Picture End
Peak
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I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz / Film Director
Biting
Knuckles
Months
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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz / Film Director
Life
Movies
Differences
Scripts
Make
Between
Difference
Script
Sense
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Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz / Film Director
Film
Names
Scripts
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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 / Film Director
Cold
Comic
Hungry
Even Worse
Richest
Schoolteacher
Worse
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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 / Film Director
Beautiful
Golf
Phones
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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 / Film Director
Girl
Life
Success
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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 / Film Director
Jobs
Definitions
Writing
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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 / Film Director
Giving
People
Real
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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 / Film Director
Careers
Female
Moving
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