I hate that word. It’s return–a return to the millions of people who’ve never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
BILLY WILDERI just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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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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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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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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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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Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Well, nobody’s perfect.
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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 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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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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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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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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