Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
BILLY WILDERYou’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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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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One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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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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I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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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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If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
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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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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 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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I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
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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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The best director is the one you don’t see.
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I’m delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we’ve got something to look down on.
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