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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.

Billy Wilder

Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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Country Hollywood Killing People
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Great Year Hollywood Films Movie
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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Mediocre Track Undoubtedly
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
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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Hate People Return Screen
If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
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Hate Seriously Taken
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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English Mixtures Schwarzenegger
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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Bastard Legitimate Make Money
Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.
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Deserve Fight Important Writer
[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
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Bathroom Hotel Sleep Sunset
Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood’s Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town.
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Fabulous Mean Towns
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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Art Looks Television
I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
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Anyone Fabulous Screen Utterly
A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don’t bury our dead. When you think it’s out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
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Daughter Father Thinking
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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Always People Think Thinking

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