Billy Wilder Quotes

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

Billy Wilder

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• Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Why

• I'm an artist at heart.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Heart
  • Artist

• You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Live
  • Experience

• I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.

  

  Vance Joy
  • People
  • Book
  • Road

• There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Nothing
  • Vanity

• Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Women
  • Sales
  • Most

• I'm a country girl at heart. I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun. I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Country
  • School

• There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Women
  • You
  • Intuition

• I'm a believer in paying your dues.

  

  Dana Fox
  • Your
  • Paying
  • Dues

• A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • City
  • Far
  • Buildings

• President Obama has a good sense not just of the economic requisites for financial crisis firefighting but also how you build political support for moving forward on reforming the financial system, making sure that the banks are carrying enough capital.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Good
  • Political
  • Support

• We need to create an ecosystem which will make young people want to start their own company.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • People
  • Want
  • Start

• If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• I'm a beauty guru, I just love all of that stuff. We have a makeup artist for 'Dance Moms' that touches us up and stuff, but I love doing my own makeup; sometimes I do my friends', too. My favorite is doing eye shadow and eyeliner.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Up
  • Love
  • Friends

• As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Funny

• Cybernated art is very important, but art for cybernated life is

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Life
  • Important
  • Art

• At that time c. 1904 – 1905 I tried, by means of lines and by distribution of mottled points of colours in his tempera painting on paper: 'Russian Beauty in a Landscape', 1905 to express the musical spirit of Russia. Other pictures of that period reflected the contradictions and later the eccentricities of Russia.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Time
  • Period
  • Painting

• The hijab has nothing to do with moral values. A woman's moral values are reflected in her eyes, in the way she talks, and in the way she walks. They put on a hijab and go dancing, wearing high heels and lipstick. They wear tight jeans that show their bellies.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • She
  • High
  • Eyes

• 'Technology is dangerous.''How do you mean?''It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.'

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Technology

• I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do that - be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Long
  • Simple

• Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • Lost
  • Everyone

• Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Done
  • Lying

• It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Family
  • Together
  • Simple

• Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

  

  Billy Wilder