Billy Wilder Video

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

Be careful how you live; you will be the only Bible some people ever read.

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

I have always been so sure — too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..." ~ Hercule Poirot

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

The Apartment

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.

You dirty, double-crossing rat.

Give them pleasure--the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people doesn't add up to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

They can't censor the gleam in my eye.

She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth --or anywhere else.

We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.

To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.

There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Generally, employees who file complaints of discrimination do so as a last resort.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times.

America and its demons, Europe and its ghost.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering and it's all over much too soon.

What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it-as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.