If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

- Billy Wilder

If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

- Billy Wilder

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to affo…

- Billy Wilder

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

- Billy Wilder

Well, nobody's perfect.

- Billy Wilder

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.

- Billy Wilder

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.

- Billy Wilder

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

- Billy Wilder

Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.

- Billy Wilder