One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.

Quote by Billy Wilder

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I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

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

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

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.

Breasts like granite and a brain like swiss cheese.

Breasts like granite and a brain like swiss cheese.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

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...

It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.

It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now...

It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now...

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, you...

Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, you...

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...

It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now...

It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now...

Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town....

Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town....

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...

Big cities and bright lights. Sleep all day; long nights.

Big cities and bright lights. Sleep all day; long nights.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

Cities are the abyss of the human species

Cities are the abyss of the human species