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An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
Billy Wilder
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Billy Wilder
Age: 95 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2002
Died: March 27
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Samuel Wilder
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Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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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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My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
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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.
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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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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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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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Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
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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.
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I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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