I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
BILLY WILDERI just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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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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Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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God save me from myself.
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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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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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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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Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
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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.
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I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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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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My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
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