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. 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.
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you. - Billy Wilder
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
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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
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…
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning. - Billy Wilder
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
Well, nobody's perfect. - Billy Wilder
Well, nobody's perfect.
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 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.
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian. - Billy Wilder
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously. - Billy Wilder
If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect. - Billy Wilder
Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.
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