26 Quotes by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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

Life, every now and then, behaves as though it had seen too many bad movies, when everything fits too well - the beginning, the middle, the end - from fade-in to fade-out.

Cleopatra: I will not have love as my master.Marc Anthony: Then you will not have love.- from the 1963 disaster film, Cleopatra

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.

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

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

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.

There's nothing as real as money.

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