If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

Quote by Billy Wilder

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I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.

I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone...

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone...

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but...

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but...

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't...

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't...

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone...

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone...

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

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

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

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone...

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone...

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't...

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't...

France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet...

France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet...

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but...

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but...

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would...

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would...

Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her....

Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her....

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make...

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make...

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.