Billy Wilder Quotes

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

Billy Wilder

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• I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • World
  • Writing
  • Why

• Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • History
  • Generation
  • Irish

• A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Money
  • Food
  • Fly

• How does one measure the success of a museum?

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Success
  • Measure
  • Museum

• I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Myself
  • Serious

• The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised, and the weak is a unique experiment to be lauded.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Giving
  • Listening
  • Unique

• Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Passion
  • Christmas
  • White

• As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Company
  • Teenager
  • Him

• There are certain sounds that have a loaded past. Like the sound of a harp, if you go back to old movies, represents a dream sequence; it transports you there.

  

  Washed Out
  • Dream
  • Past
  • Movies

• Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Law
  • Government
  • Information

• I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Women
  • Live
  • Education

• The great thing about a name like 'Cougar Town' is that you hear it once and you remember it forever. It's a very 'loud' title. But there's a connection to the word 'cougar' that means a lot of people are going to be turned off right away by the title alone without even giving the show a chance.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • People
  • Great
  • Remember

• I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Child
  • Very
  • Ambitious

• When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Done
  • Going
  • Before

• Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • People
  • Life
  • Simple

• The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Live
  • Feeling
  • Best

• The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Up
  • May
  • Running

• I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Good
  • School
  • Family

• Western culture from the start has swerved from femaleness. The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Society
  • Culture

• How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

  

  Annie Dillard

• David Wain just texted me and asked me if I wanted to do 'Wet Hot.' And I just said, 'Yeah, sure.' And he said, 'You want me to call you and tell you about the character?' And I was like, 'Not really. Just tell me when, and I'll do it.'

  

  Adam Scott
  • Character

• Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Weakness
  • Anonymity
  • Interconnectedness

• He was staring into my eyes, and I felt that shivery thing that happens when you look in someone’s eyes and you get goose bumps because you’re gaining access.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Eyes
  • Access
  • Bumps

• Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

  

  Billy Wilder