Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
BILLY WILDERMake subtlety obvious.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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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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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 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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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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They’ve tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won’t work. She was an original.
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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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Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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God save me from myself.
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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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If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
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The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
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