Famous quotes containing the words billy wilder, billy, wilder and/or theater:
“Augusta: You have an ant strolling up your cheek.
Tom: I wish it were your lips. [She kisses him] Such a little kiss.
Augusta: Such a little ant.
Tom: Wish it had been an elephant.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda,
Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
And he sang as he watched and waited while his billy boiled:
‘Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?’”
—Andrew Barton Peterson (1864–1941)
“I’m not happy. I’m not happy at all.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1984)