Billy Wilder Quotes

I find it odd that people take me seriously.

People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

I don't think anyone in their right mind takes me serious.

Take your job seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously.

I never talk about my work as a joke.

No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.

I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.

Everybody always says that I'm the girl next door, which makes me think that y'all must have a lot of weird next-door neighbours.

Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible.

It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.

Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.

I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them.

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled.

Let's take fashion seriously, but not ourselves so seriously. Or reverse that, maybe don't take fashion so seriously, but take yourself seriously. Actually, don't take yourself seriously, that's for sure. So, yeah, take fashion seriously, just not yourself.

People should take me more seriously.

There have been occasions when some people have taken me very seriously.

The minute you're laughing, some people will say you're laughing at people.

One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

It's very confusing to me why people take comedians so seriously.