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For director/writer Billy Wilder’s 96th birthday, five moments that are representative of his witty, acerbic, sentimental and romantic style. (All of these films are widely available.)

BUD (Jack Lemmon): “You can’t leave yet. The doctor says it takes forty-eight hours to get the stuff out of your system.”
FRAN (Shirley MacLaine): “I wonder how long it takes to get someone you’re stuck on out of your system? If they’d only invent some kind of a pump for that…”
-THE APARTMENT (1960) 

PHYLLIS (Barbara Stanwyck): “There’s a speed limit in this state, Mr. Neff. Forty-five miles an hour.”
NEFF (Fred MacMurray): “How fast was I going, officer?”
PHYLLIS: “I’d say about ninety.”
-DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)  

RICHARD (Tom Ewell): “You look to me like a big Rachmaninoff girl.”
THE GIRL (Marilyn Monroe): “I do? Funny, l don’t know anything about music.”
-THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH (1955)  

SUGAR (Marilyn Monroe): “I may spill something.”
JERRY (Jack Lemmon): “So spill it. Spills, thrills, laughs, games – this may even turn out to be a surprise party.”
SUGAR: “What’s the surprise?”
JERRY: “Uh-uh! Not yet!”
-SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)

GILLIS (William Holden): “Norma, I can’t take it. You’ve bought me enough.”
NORMA (Gloria Swanson): “Shut up. I’m rich. I’m richer than all this new Hollywood trash. I’ve got a million dollars.”
GILLIS: “Keep it.”
NORMA: “I own three blocks downtown. I have oil in Bakersfield — pumping, pumping, pumping. What’s it for but to buy us anything we want.”
-SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)