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I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.

Billy Wilder

Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Men Perfect Wells
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Funny Inspiring Sarcastic
Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
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Able Actors Camera Writing
I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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Like Made Picture
Make subtlety obvious.
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Make Obvious Subtlety
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
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Fall Money Paper Travel
I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School.
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Class Deal Law School Underestimate
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Life Music Sarcastic
If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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Bad Noses Smell
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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Bastard Legitimate Make Money
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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Actors Doors Entering Situation
The best director is the one you don’t see.
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Directors Inspirational Motivational
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
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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Believe Thinking Years
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
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 had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.

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I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.

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