Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary. — Joseph L. Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
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… — Joseph L. Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script. — Joseph L. Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me. — Joseph L. Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
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… — Joseph L. Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary. — Joseph L. Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as realistic dialogue. If you [simply recorded] the real conversation of any people and played it back from the… — Joseph L. Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't. — Joseph L. Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
I got a job at Metro and went in to see Louis Mayer, who told me he wanted me to be a producer. I… — Joseph L. Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic. — Joseph L. Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture. — Joseph L. Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
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