Netflix's film titled Mank is a black and white drama based on the era of 1930s Hollywood. The film focuses on the famous screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, who is tormented by his past and present while trying to finish writing the screenplay for Citizen Kane. This movie touches on difficult subjects such as alcoholism, greed, politics, and WWI. Top names in the movie industry such as Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, and Lily Collins star in this incredible movie.
If you enjoy watching 1930s black and white films then Mank is the movie for you!
Here's the scoop for the best quotes from Mank!
1. "I am very happy to accept this award in the manner in which the screenplay is written, which is to say, in the absence of Orson Welles." -Herman Mankiewicz
2. "I'm being burned at the stake and I am dying for a ciggie-boo." -Marion Davies
3. "A play is never a disaster till the movies say it is." -Joe Mankiewicz
4. "If I ever go to the electric chair, I'd like him to be sitting in my lap." - Herman Mankiewicz
5. "I've put up with your suicidal drinking, your compulsive gambling, your silly platonic affairs." -Sara Mankiewicz
6. "I ought to cut your balls off!" -Louis B. Mayer
7. "Aircraft carriers are a shitty idea, but I don't appreciate the callousness." -Rita Alexander
8. "The most miserable bastard on God's green earth." -Joe Mankiewicz
9. "It's enough to persuade me that a writer is more of a menace to an unsuspecting public than a party hack" -Herman Mankiewicz
10. "I assume if he wishes to drink, he's a grown man, a good man, and should be treated as such." - Frieda
11. "It blew my wig!" -Marion Davies
12. "I intend to make pictures with the help of real literary minds." -Willie Hearst
13. "Remind me never again to work with a washed-up alcoholic." - Orson Welles
14. "The Wizard of Oz is gonna sink the studio." -Herman Mankiewicz
15. "I also remember how I spent my honeymoon in Berlin, with hookers running up and down the stairs all night because my dashing correspondent couldn't afford a nice hotel." -Sara Mankiewicz
16. "Have you been laid yet?" -Ben Hecht
17. "Why is it when you scratch a prim, starchy English schoolgirl, you get a swooning moving picture fan who's forgotten all she learned about the Battle of Hastings?" -Herman Mankiewicz
18. "There's enough Seconal in those bottles to bring a bull elephant in heat."-John Houseman
19. "Tommy, if we can find civilization by sundown, I hope to climb out of this crate and into a cold martini." -Herman Mankiewicz
20. "Nerts is Brooklynese for 'nuts'." -Marion Davies
21. "Our country should be flattered that you picked its birth date as your own." -Herman Mankiewicz
22. "I already made my exit." -Marion Davies
23. "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." -Sara Mankiewicz
24. "Posterity, my ass." -Joe Mankiewicz
25. "Why, it's a puffed-up, sharp-tailed, red ruffled magpie."-Herman Mankiewicz
26. "You see, if you just give people what they need to know, in an emotional way, you can expect they'll do the right thing." Louis B. Mayer
27. "I would've loved to play me ten years ago." -Marion Davies
28. "Nerve's about all I've got left." -Herman Mankiewicz
29. "Rise and shine, Hombre." -Orson Welles
30. "You've never seen a sunrise." -Joe Mankiewicz
31. "It's a hell of a way to spend the Sabbath, fellas." -Herman Mankiewicz
32. "We need guys like you to keep people like Mayer honest." -Joe Mankiewicz
33. "I expect more of you." -Rita Alexander
34. "I was taught by my parents to be straightforward, to ask simply for what I want, and expect that I may have to elucidate my position." -Irving Thalberg
35. "I'd know that whiskey garble anywhere." -Herman Mankiewicz
36. "It blew my wig!" -Marion Davies
37. "You don't look a day over 48." -William Hearst
38. "I removed any distraction, eliminated every excuse, your family, your cronies, liquor." -Orson Welles
39. "I don't want nobody calling me Poor Sara no more." -Sara Mankiewicz
40. "Who the fuck do you think you are, Mankiewicz?" -Louis B. Mayer
41. "I may be a loose cannon, but you, my friend, are an outsider." -Herman Mankiewicz
42. "You write for the movies because you're super at it." -Rita Alexander
43. "You may never work in this town again, Mank!" -Orson Welles
44. "Self-preservation is not politics." -Joe Mankiewicz
45. "You know better than anyone, not all characters are headliners." -Herman Mankiewicz
46. "Real families root for each other in the good times and take care of each other in the tough ones." -Louis B. Mayer
47. "The narrative is one big circle, like a cinnamon roll, not a straight line pointing to the nearest exit." -Herman Mankiewicz
48. "There's a golden age coming when all the world will be a stage, and you, perhaps, their Shakespeare." -William Hearst
49. "I heard Pops on the phone helping to pick the president's cabinet like casting a movie." -Marion Davies
50. "How Bad? I went to a party last night where Scott Fitzgerald referred to you as a ruined man." -Joe Mankiewicz
51. "What is it the writer says? Tell the story you know."-John Houseman
52. "You may tell him from me 'Mank, you can kiss my half!'. "-Orson Welles
53. "Every moment of my life is treacherous." -Herman Mankiewicz
54. "I want credit." -Herman Mankiewicz
55. "I've raised your kids kosher and all but by myself." -Sara Mankiewicz
56. "I'm confused, I thought the invitation called for circus attire, not flea circus." -Louis B. Mayer
57. "We can't un-ring the bell." -Shelly
58. "The little sausage might have gone to jail."-Herman Mankiewicz
59. "Jeepers!" -Marion Davies
60. "Well, call me old-fashioned Irving, but I don't like being told which side of a fight I'm already on." -Herman Mankiewicz
61. "We are sure to be axed." -John Houseman
62. "What writer failed to notice that the Screen Writers Guild needs an apostrophe?"- Herman Mankiewicz
63. "I live in a fishbowl but anything I want is mine." -Marion Davies
64. "You piss that away between hopeless bets." -Irving
65. "Only the ones who believe King Kong is ten stories tall or Mary Pickford a virgin at 40." -Herman Mankiewicz
65. "Could you effete political snobs please shut up and play?" -Herman Mankiewicz
66. "Well, do you always just say whatever you think?" -Marion Davies
67. "I gave you a second chance." -Orson Welles
68. "It was the goddamn French pun that did me in." -Joe Mankiewicz
69. "I've never not been fired." -Herman Mankiewicz
70. "I've been a little sixes and sevens recently." -Marion Davies
71. "Everything he does is for family, except when it comes to selling his last name to a competitor in the middle of the night." -Herman Mankiewicz
72. "Are we home licking our wounds or here making the best of it?" -Sarah Mankiewicz
73. "The lonely showgirl, trapped in a castle, doing jigsaw puzzles for fun." -Charlie
74. "My friends, income in this country is going to be redistributed by one of two methods, legal enactment or violent revolution." -Upton Sinclair
75. "All I currently want is a real shower, a cocktail, and my Sara to wake up to." -Herman Mankiewicz
76. "Mank sponsored my family's entry into this country." -Frieda
77. "As Groucho always said, "Never belong to any club that would have someone like you as a member"." -Herman Mankiewicz
78. "That is mighty strong medicine for a lifetime of starry-eyed self-absorption." -Charlie
79. "Hey, you made yourself court jester." -Joe Mankiewicz
80. "A rare bird that." -Rita Alexander
81. "Are you familiar with the parable of the organ grinder's monkey?" -William Hearst
82. "You're not the first person to trade integrity for a chance in the big chair." -Herman Mankiewicz
83. "I suppose because being married to you, Herman, I'm never bored." -Sara Mankiewicz
84. "Well, that, my good man, is Hollywood." -Orson Welles
85. "But all at once, not in relays. Helps spread the blame around." -Herman Mankiewicz
86. "I'm washed up Joe, have been for years." -Herman Mankiewicz
87. "Marion Davies when to convent school." -Marion Davies
88. "He wrote a picture about the Nazis which no studio anywhere will dare make." -Frieda
89. "I hate shop talk; I never know what's going on." -Marion Davies
90. "Where's a gossip columnist around this castle when you need one?" -Herman Mankiewicz
91. "Inez, you are not to let the brothers Marx wait in my office ever, they've been grilling hot dogs again." -Irving
92. "Stop crying for your just desserts." -Herman Mankiewicz
93. "You'd need a degree in larceny." -Herman Mankiewicz
94. "I'm at a loss to even express how wealth and influence can crush a man." -John Houseman
95. "Why are you acting like some dumb ward heeler?" -Herman Mankiewicz
96. "Are you hoping I might absolve you of such a personal betrayal?" -Charlie
97. "That 'poor old woman' has got enough oil wells south of El Segundo to buy us both, Schnutz." -Herman Mankiewicz
98. "They gave me a chance to direct." -Shelly
99. "It's a matter of principle L.B, you wouldn't understand." -Herman Mankiewicz
100. "Excuse me, I'm going to throw up." -Sara Mankiewicz
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