I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
BILLY WILDERI just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
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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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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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You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.
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Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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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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One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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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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After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano.
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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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Love 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.
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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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