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Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

Billy Wilder

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
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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Country Happiness People Work
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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Fabulous Mean Towns
I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
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Anyone Fabulous Screen Utterly
I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
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Eggs Funny Twenties
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Funny Inspiring Sarcastic
If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
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Hate Seriously Taken
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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Keep Manufacture Original Trying
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Great Year Hollywood Films Movie
I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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Church Nylon Religion
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
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
I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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Like Made Picture
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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Around Fabulous Mean Met Towns

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