France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDERHappiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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God save me from myself.
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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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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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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If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
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I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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The best director is the one you don’t see.
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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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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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If you don’t like what you’re doing, it’s unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.
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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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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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Make subtlety obvious.
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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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