Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
BILLY WILDERJerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that’s the bunk. It’s little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.
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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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God save me from myself.
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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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Well, nobody’s perfect.
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The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book?
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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 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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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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We’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.
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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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If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
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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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