Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe . . . nor as utterly fabulous on the screen.

Quote by Billy Wilder

Topics: Courage Quotes, Inspiration Quotes

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.

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.

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...

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is,...

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is,...

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming...

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it...

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it...

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

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

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.

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...

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...

Gays don't vommit. They're a very clean people. And they have been ever since they...

Gays don't vommit. They're a very clean people. And they have been ever since they...

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in...

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in...

I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one...

I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one...

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.