Herman J. Mankiewicz Quotes

I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.

It's hard when you're not a native speaker, because everyone's laughing, and you're like, 'What was that? Can you tell me again?'

Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anaïs - Anaïs - Anaïs. You just say "Anna" and then add "ees," with the accent on the "ees."

Blame the guy who doesn't speak Engish.

This is unbearable how I talk.

You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.

For years now, people have mentioned my mustache and get disappointed that when they see me live I don't have a mustache.

When I have the beard on I have people behind me in traffic honking their horn. I'm thinking "how in the world?" But it's the beard - it's kind of the stand out thing.

In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute someone may appear and ask what you are doing and that you can't answer, and you haven't many references, and you don't know the law. Neither is it easy to find and know the subjects for portraits or comfortable to make such picture when you cannot apply an anesthesia of small talk.

I had a phase where I had a mustache. There was several times where I had a mustache. I had a mustache in high school because South Asian men can potentially have a great deal of facial hair. So I had a mustache at 14, and then I grew a proper mustache a few years ago. I just thought it would be fun to just have a mustache.

In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.

Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard

A beard is something that is almost like a mirror to the viewer. When someone sees you wearing a beard, they're seeing something in their own imagination because it's still me whether I'm bearded or not.

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.

He was tall, thin, and very old, judging by the silver of his hair and beard, which were both long enough to tuck into his belt. He was wearing long robes, a purple cloak that swept the ground, and high-heeled, buckled boots. His blue eyes were light, bright, and sparkling behind half-moon spectacles and his nose was very long and crooked, as though it had been broken at least twice. This man's name was Albus Dumbledore.

And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

If you wish to fault the administration, it is that we didn't have a clear picture and we probably didn't do as clear a job explaining that we did not have a clear picture until days later.

I'm not shaving for a month so you all can see my mustache... I'm pumped!

Don't touch your brows. I've never done anything to my eyebrows.

I have a beard. Just not on my face.

Ted Kennedy is endorsing John Kerry and I'm wondering, do you really want the endorsement of a guy with a Bloody Mary mustache?

I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one.