Money makes even bastards legitimate.
BILLY WILDERShe was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift.
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She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift.
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I’m delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we’ve got something to look down on.
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You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano.
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An actor entering through the door, you’ve got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you’ve got a situation.
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Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book?
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You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that’s the bunk. It’s little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.
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My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.
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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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God save me from myself.
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I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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I hate that word. It’s return–a return to the millions of people who’ve never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
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I just always think, ‘Do I like it?’ And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
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