Billy Wilder Theater

Famous quotes containing the words billy wilder, billy, wilder and/or theater:

    “Walter Neff: I’m crazy about you, baby.
    Phyllis Dietrichson: I’m crazy about you, Walter.
    Walter Neff: That perfume on your hair, what’s the name of it?
    Phyllis Dietrichson: I don’t know. I bought it in Ensenada.”
    —Billy Wilder (b. 1906)

    ““How old is she, Billy boy, Billy boy?
    How old is she, charming Billy?”
    Past six, past seven,
    Past twenty and eleven,
    She’s a young thing, and cannot leave her mother.””
    —Unknown. Billy Boy (l. 21–25)

    “You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that’s the bunk. It’s little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.”
    —Billy Wilder (b. 1906)

    “When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet’s task to turn it into an audience.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)