"A bad play folds and is forgotten, but……" — Billy Wilder
"A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot."
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57 Quotes by Billy Wilder
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If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
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Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
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One's too many and a hundred's not enough.
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I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who…
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You're as good as the best thing you've ever done.
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I, you know, am all over the place — every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.…
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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…
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre...
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Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who…
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What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
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