Herman J. Mankiewicz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There are millions to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. Don't let thisget around.
-- Herman J. Mankiewicz

#Competition #Idiot
Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!
-- Herman J. Mankiewicz

#Night #Belts
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

#Children #Emotional #Personality
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

#Girl #Cheating #Fun
You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker.
-- Herman J. Mankiewicz

#Men #Speak #Whiskers
Imagine--the whole world wired to Harry Cohn's ass!
-- Herman J. Mankiewicz

#Culture #World #Ass

I want all the gold that there is out there â€” everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.
In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.
I am always fighting inside the Council to get the message across that at each competition venue, we should send somebody to inspect and to make sure the athletes will be looked after in a correct manner.
I was very competitive with my brothers when I was younger. Now we are all in completely different worlds. Im not in direct competition with my brothers for anything, ever. Stephen and I and Billy and I are better at staying in touch with each other. Danny is married, he has a new baby and he is very peripatetic, he goes to golfing tournaments and charity things. He really travels a lot.
During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk
I think I liked you better when you were a raging idiot.
Idiots have always been exploited, and this is only right. The day they cease to be, they will triumph, and the world will be lost.
I'm not afraid to look like an idiot.
I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

Herman J. Mankiewicz famous quotes

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