Billy Wilder Quotes

I just made pictures I would've liked to see.

Billy Wilder

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• People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • People
  • Up
  • Waiting

• International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Control
  • Military
  • Police

• No fruit. No veggie.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Fruit

• Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Kids
  • Would
  • Still

• I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.

  

  Rachael MacFarlane
  • Theatre
  • Theater
  • Boston

• I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Work
  • Me
  • Shape

• You can't always be the jokester and the doormat.

  

  Manny Montana
  • You
  • Always
  • Doormat

• People were saying, 'He's worth £32m? He tried a back-heel and fell over!' Even I laughed. In my head, I said, 'OK, you've seen the bad side, now come see the good side'.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• The power of collecting money from the people is not to be rejected because it has sometimes been oppressive. Public credit is as necessary for the prosperity of a nation as private credit is for the support and wealth of a family.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • People
  • Family
  • Money

• The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Life
  • Today
  • Wife

• He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Man
  • Single
  • Animal

• The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Real
  • True
  • Memories

• I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Independent
  • Find
  • British

• Trading forces someone to think hard; those who merely work hard generally lose their focus and intellectual energy. In addition, they end up drowning in randomness; work ethics draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Not only the artist but everyone 'becomes someone else' in becoming someone. One is thought about, thus invented. Or as Steinberg put it with memorable succinctness in his Cogito drawings, 'I think, therefore Descartes is.' One creates not oneself but another. Being is in the act.

  

  Harold Rosenberg

• This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Life

• I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Good
  • Gold

• Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubborness, when I know I am right.

  

  John Adams
  • God
  • Thanks

• It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Friendship
  • Conversation
  • Indonesia

• And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he has passed....

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Why
  • Struggle

• I was in love with a lot of people, because I was a student of the game of comedy - Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Don Rickles, Red Foxx, Moms Mabley - who gets no credit, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Kirby. I loved them all, and I used to just take a page out of all of them.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • People
  • Game
  • Comedy

• I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Family
  • Father
  • Identity

• If evil wins in a Bollywood film, it is bound to flop. A lot of people here want to change society, so they like to read about it being changed. And that means good usually triumphs.

  

  Ravi Subramanian
  • Society
  • Changed
  • Triumphs

• I just made pictures I would've liked to see.

  

  Billy Wilder