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.
BILLY WILDERMy Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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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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France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
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If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
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God save me from myself.
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Well, nobody’s perfect.
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I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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We’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.
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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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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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You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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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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You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that’s the bunk. It’s little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.
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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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