Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real. — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
But the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me. — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a comedian. I wanted to be an actor - maybe a comic actor, but a real actor… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism. — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
We all grew up on movies with scenes where the actor is lying, and you know he's lying, but he wants to… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
What do actors really want? To be great actors? Yes, but you can't buy talent, so it's best to leave the word… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you. — Gene Wilder Copy Share
[Gilda Radner] died in '89, and I got non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2000. I've just passed the five-year mark and I'm now what you call… — Gene Wilder Copy Share
I like - it's not that I want to be someone different from me, but I suppose it partly is that. I love creating… — Gene Wilder Copy Share
I live in a small town in Connecticut, and they don't write scripts there, but I get them anyway because my agent is in… — Gene Wilder Copy Share
On screen, Gene Wilder could often be summed up as an accident waiting to happen, that frizzy, flyaway hair, the eyes darting this way… — Gene Wilder Copy Share
Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real. — Gene Wilder Copy Share
When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy. — Gene Wilder Copy Share
What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it. — Gene Wilder Copy Share
I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito. — Gene Wilder Copy Share
Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded. — Gene Wilder Copy Share
I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism. — Gene Wilder Copy Share