An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you...
BILLY WILDER France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER The best director is the one you don't see.
BILLY WILDER I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have righ...
BILLY WILDER If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
BILLY WILDER One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
BILLY WILDER They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it...
BILLY WILDER I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
BILLY WILDER Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
BILLY WILDER He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
BILLY WILDER If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too serious...
BILLY WILDER I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
BILLY WILDER My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Au...
BILLY WILDER Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
BILLY WILDER Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means...
BILLY WILDER What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
BILLY WILDER Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
BILLY WILDER Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
BILLY WILDER Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
BILLY WILDER Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me...
BILLY WILDER I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as ...
BILLY WILDER If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
BILLY WILDER An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ...
BILLY WILDER If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.
BILLY WILDER I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
BILLY WILDER He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
BILLY WILDER France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
BILLY WILDER An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ...
BILLY WILDER I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
BILLY WILDER Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
BILLY WILDER You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
BILLY WILDER A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
BILLY WILDER The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethov...
BILLY WILDER Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, youneed at least four of them, and ...
BILLY WILDER Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
BILLY WILDER France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now we have something to look down on. (...
BILLY WILDER France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper
BILLY WILDER No good deed goes unpunished.
BILLY WILDER I just thought here is comedy, here is tragedy. That is the way life is. I just tried to do it true ...
BILLY WILDER People copy, people steal. Most of the pictures they make nowadays are loaded down with special effe...
BILLY WILDER I would worship the ground you walk on, Audrey, if you only lived in a better neighborhood.
BILLY WILDER I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
BILLY WILDER Making movies is a little like walking into a dark room. Some people stumble across furniture, other...
BILLY WILDER She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. I...
BILLY WILDER Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous....
BILLY WILDER If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
BILLY WILDER I, you know, am all over the place -- every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indiffere...
BILLY WILDER he was himself, with all the quirks that a human being has.
BILLY WILDER He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
BILLY WILDER When I came here, Sunset Boulevard was in the country. It was not even asphalted when I came here in...
BILLY WILDER I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
BILLY WILDER Let us not forget that Mr. Hitler was Austrian. . . . I always get into terrible fights with the new...
BILLY WILDER An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've ...
BILLY WILDER We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre
BILLY WILDER They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won...
BILLY WILDER Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER I just always think, "Do I like it?" And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
BILLY WILDER Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man.
Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect. BILLY WILDER France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but ...
GENE WILDER My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on y...
THORNTON WILDER The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resour...
THORNTON WILDER Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
THORNTON WILDER The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.
THORNTON WILDER Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
THORNTON WILDER My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your ...
THORNTON WILDER There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, th...
THORNTON WILDER If Bronze Bomber got loose in the streets, it won't be something nice.
DEONTAY WILDER Once I knock Szpilka out, I want all the Polish fans to come on the 'Bronze Bomber' train as...
DEONTAY WILDER Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece...
DOUGLAS WILDER Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars...
THORNTON WILDER I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhoo...
THORNTON WILDER What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the wa...
DOUGLAS WILDER I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
THORNTON WILDER The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith t...
THORNTON WILDER Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and ...
THORNTON WILDER Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous...
THORNTON WILDER Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the im...
THORNTON WILDER There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, th...
THORNTON WILDER When one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscious patient, I was incredulous. For examp...
WILDER PENFIELD The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.
WILDER PENFIELD ...I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of th...
WILDER PENFIELD I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
THORNTON WILDER A play visibly represents pure existing.
THORNTON WILDER Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of th...
THORNTON WILDER The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.
THORNTON WILDER The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which ...
THORNTON WILDER It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adve...
THORNTON WILDER For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
THORNTON WILDER Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I...
WILDER PENFIELD There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the ...
THORNTON WILDER My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your ...
THORNTON WILDER I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of...
THORNTON WILDER Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that ...
WILDER PENFIELD The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've...
THORNTON WILDER Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
THORNTON WILDER Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modest...
THORNTON WILDER When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you ...
THORNTON WILDER Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
DON WILDER Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures o...
THORNTON WILDER The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that...
GENE WILDER I always picture my grandkids looking at their grandfather and saying, 'My grandfather was the l...
DEONTAY WILDER Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed woul...
DOUGLAS WILDER Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it st...
GENE WILDER The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
THORNTON WILDER I was raised by both parents up to 17. We had a good family. We had a middle class family, good teac...
DEONTAY WILDER It's a great feeling to be the WBC champ of the world, but there's more to gain from this.
DEONTAY WILDER My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I thin...
GENE WILDER I trust if your life is right, the right things will happen at the right time. If the chords are in ...
GENE WILDER But we have to learn to be free. We have to, Nell. Doesn't mean happy all the time, or okay all the ...
JASINDA WILDER It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of th...
THORNTON WILDER What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but t...
GENE WILDER Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin p...
DOUGLAS WILDER Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
THORNTON WILDER Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
THORNTON WILDER A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arres...
THORNTON WILDER I'm not a natural writer like, let's say - I'm not talking about Arthur Miller; that'...
GENE WILDER Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
THORNTON WILDER Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
THORNTON WILDER Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.
THORNTON WILDER Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high o...
THORNTON WILDER Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
THORNTON WILDER I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the direct...
GENE WILDER When we got back to my room, Gilda gave the dog a bowl of water and set some newspaper down in the b...
GENE WILDER Many who have dedicated their life to love, can tell us less about this subject than a child who los...
THORNTON WILDER Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking dur...
DOUGLAS WILDER I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Pe...
GENE WILDER A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing su...
GENE WILDER During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many ...
DOUGLAS WILDER There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different fro...
THORNTON WILDER Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
THORNTON WILDER The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. Th...
THORNTON WILDER Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signature...
THORNTON WILDER We live in what is, but we find 1,000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to ...
THORNTON WILDER I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being...
THORNTON WILDER The theatre is supremely fitted to say: Behold! These things are. Yet most dramatists employ it to s...
THORNTON WILDER Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
THORNTON WILDER Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the...
THORNTON WILDER Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous lia...
THORNTON WILDER There are some more expensive brands that I like, but they're not as attainable at this stage in lif...
CHERRYN WILDER I had a lot of great moments with David Haye.
DEONTAY WILDER I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go righ...
DEONTAY WILDER My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suff...
GENE WILDER People have to realize that God has blessed me with power. He hasn't got me this far for no reas...
DEONTAY WILDER He still has some working documents to sort out before we can offer him a contract, but we certainly...
VALERIE WILDER If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
THORNTON WILDER Since the heady days of the 2009 Inauguration, middle-class independents have grown increasingly dis...
DOUGLAS WILDER Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black ...
DOUGLAS WILDER She closes her eyes, and I can see the moisture. She’s deep-breathing again, and I notice her hand...
JASINDA WILDER Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
THORNTON WILDER When I went to college, I went to a junior college. I wanted to go to the University of Alabama but ...
DEONTAY WILDER There is no auto pilot in U.S.-China relations, but relations have matured to the point where neithe...
DENNIS WILDER My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a...
GENE WILDER The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
THORNTON WILDER Mel Brooks is one of the few authentic geniuses working in comedy in America today.
GENE WILDER I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't ...
GENE WILDER It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evi...
THORNTON WILDER The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliff...
THORNTON WILDER You can take ginger tablets or just eat some ginger.
ANN WILDER American tastes have changed incredibly.
ANN WILDER I bought this place for a pittance, because it was a dump. Rejected, abandoned, unwanted. Like me. I...
JASINDA WILDER Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars ...
THORNTON WILDER Having these 15 practices at center is important for him. It's one thing to be practicing your snaps...
BOB WILDER I will be that guy to change this sport, especially in the heavyweight division. A lot of people hav...
DEONTAY WILDER I'm one of the baddest, hardest-hitting heavyweights in the business. Right here from Alabama, b...
DEONTAY WILDER I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was...
GENE WILDER Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a...
GENE WILDER Just watching them wrestle . . . they have that aura about them. They've been there, they know what ...
GENE WILDER Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!
GENE WILDER Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
THORNTON WILDER My daughter will find some of the sweetest words to tell you that can make a grown man cry. She stil...
DEONTAY WILDER The theatre is supremely fitted to say: ''Behold! These things are.'' Yet most dramatists employ it ...
THORNTON WILDER When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery...
THORNTON WILDER My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your ...
THORNTON WILDER I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it&...
GENE WILDER So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm...
GENE WILDER We're getting excited with the number of young players we have running multiple positions.
BOB WILDER Today was the most success we've had. It had been discouraging for our guys, so to score three today...
BOB WILDER Everybody has a right to their own troubles.
THORNTON WILDER I decided to do something I've been wanting to do for a long time - go get a chef and a nutritio...
DEONTAY WILDER I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!
THORNTON WILDER Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great works at some moment every day
THORNTON WILDER A living is made, Mr. Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year. Yes, s...
THORNTON WILDER Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
THORNTON WILDER The tiny tealeaf of consciousness spreads its bittersweet smoke through the sea of the primitive min...
THORNTON WILDER But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human ...
THORNTON WILDER Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home
THORNTON WILDER There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from th...
THORNTON WILDER I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal
THORNTON WILDER An incinerator is a writer's best friend.
THORNTON WILDER The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith t...
THORNTON WILDER My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy the ice cream while it's on your p...
THORNTON WILDER Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder
THORNTON WILDER The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder.
THORNTON WILDER Some people today want to see a quick fix to the trade imbalance. And if there was one, believe us, ...
DENNIS WILDER A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.'This was said by gene wilder ... what ...
GENE WILDER