God save me from myself.
BILLY WILDEROne’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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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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Make subtlety obvious.
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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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I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it’s getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous.
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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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The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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I, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.
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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 am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven’s “Pastoral.” A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.
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France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
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She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you’re really in the presence of something. In that league there’s only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It’s a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you’ve found it.
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