If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
BILLY WILDERHappiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you’re really in the presence of something. In that league there’s only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It’s a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you’ve found it.
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Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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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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One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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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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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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My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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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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I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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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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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 met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
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