I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
BILLY WILDEROne’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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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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Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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Make subtlety obvious.
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If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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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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Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood’s Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town.
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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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Well, nobody’s perfect.
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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.
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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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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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Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window – that is at once interesting.
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