Most people talk and then wait for the audience to ask questions -- I disagree. I think that when you give a speech, you should be eager to be interrupted.


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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
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
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
THORNTON WILDER
For what human ill does dawn not seem to be an alleviation?
THORNTON WILDER
And we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all t...
THORNTON WILDER
The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I'v...
THORNTON WILDER
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sove...
THORNTON WILDER
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choo...
THORNTON WILDER
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterd...
THORNTON WILDER
One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with...
THORNTON WILDER
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference . . . and fin...
THORNTON WILDER
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
THORNTON WILDER
I am not interested in the ephemeral-such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in...
THORNTON WILDER