"You should be able to tell your child, "This is an actor. And she's older than Mommy!""

“By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there.”

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

Source : Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Brian Dauth (2008). “Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Interviews”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi

“People can criticise all day long, I think I've proven myself, I think I deliver. And I agree, box office does not mean a movie's good, but I feel like I'm making good movies and I'm delivering in box office.”

Source : "Brett Ratner: 'If it wasn't for Eddie Murphy, Rush Hour wouldn't exist'". Interview with Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2011.

“Youth passes like a dream.”

“How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I couldn't scrape together enough courage to speak to the one person who mattered the most to me?”

“Ordering pizza and jamming out with the contestants in our hotels and traveling the country together brought me so much joy.”

“Who ever told you there is no such thing in the world as real, true, everlasting love? May the liar have his despicable tongue cut out!”

“I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything.”