Top 69 Quotes & Sayings by Billy Wilder - Page 2

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Last updated on April 22, 2025.

[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

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

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

Billy Wilder

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

Billy Wilder

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

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

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

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

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

Billy Wilder

Top 69 Quotes & Sayings by Billy Wilder - Page 2

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