An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.


Billy Wilder

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They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart."
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He just bullied his way through and got to the right people.
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We've got through the hard times.
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Nobody's ticket got fixed. Their tickets got resolved through the standard procedure.
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There would have no real justice if they had got through.
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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
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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