"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

"I would've loved to play me ten years ago."

- Marion Davies 

"I don't want nobody calling me Poor Sara no more."

- Sara Mankiewicz

"A play is never a disaster till the movies say it is."

- Joe Mankiewicz

"Remind me never again to work with a washed up alcoholic."

- Orson Welles 

"I expect more of you."

-Rita Alexander 

- Louis B. Mayer 

"I ought to cut your balls off!"

"I'm being burned at the stake and I am dying for a ciggie-boo."

- Marion Davies 

"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 

"All I currently want is a real shower, a cocktail, and my Sara to wake up to."

- Herman Mankiewicz