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Famous quotes containing the word wilder:

    You’re not smarter, Walter, just a little taller.
    —Billy Wilder (b. 1906)

    Helen: You’ve got talent and ambition.
    Don: Talent? Ambition? That’s dead long ago. That’s drowned. That’s drifting around with a bloated belly on a lake of alcohol.
    —Billy Wilder (b. 1906)

    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)