If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
BILLY WILDER[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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The best director is the one you don’t see.
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My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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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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[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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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
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God save me from myself.
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Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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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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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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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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If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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