Billy Wilder Quotes - Page 3

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• [on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

  Billy Wilder

  Life, Music, Sarcastic

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

  Billy Wilder

  Dirty, Naughty, Lust

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• Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?

  Billy Wilder

  Eggs, Smell, Cologne

  "Fictional character: Tom Martin". "Arise, My Love", www.imdb.com. 1940.

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• Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

  Billy Wilder

  Happiness

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• 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 Wilder

  Events, Spain, Chamberlain

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• When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.

  Billy Wilder

  Children, Writing, Eight

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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.

  Billy Wilder

  Kings, Grandmother, Thinking

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

  Billy Wilder

  Men, Perfect, Wells

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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.

  Billy Wilder

  Animal, Turkeys, Elephants

  "Fictional character: "Bim" Nolan". "The Lost Weekend", 1945.

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• [about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.

  Billy Wilder

  Sleep, Bathroom, Hotel

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

  Billy Wilder

  Movie, Great Year, Hollywood Films

  Billy Wilder (1999). “Sunset Boulevard”, p.22, Univ of California Press

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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.

  Billy Wilder

  Art, Looks, Television

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• I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.

  Billy Wilder

  Happiness, Happy, Not Happy

  "Fictional character: Mr. Phillips". "Arise, My Love", www.imdb.com. 1940.

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• I hate that word. It's return--a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen.

  Billy Wilder

  Hate, People, Return

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