109 Quotes by Billy Wilder

Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.

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.

If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

Well, nobody's perfect.

I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.

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.

My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.

God save me from myself.