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.
BILLY WILDERLove is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You’ve got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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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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The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
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The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.
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God save me from myself.
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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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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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If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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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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I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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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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My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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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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Well, nobody’s perfect.
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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