Gene Wilder

I'm an actor, not a clown.

— Gene Wilder

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

— Gene Wilder

I don't like giving speeches. It makes me nervous.

— Gene Wilder

I had a unique form: a Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

— Gene Wilder

I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well.

— Gene Wilder

I know a lot of sad people who aren't comedians.

— Gene Wilder

Dont put the sheep on the table.

— Gene Wilder

My wife and I water color, paint water colors.

— Gene Wilder

When I was in desperate trouble for maybe eight or nine years, I went to a neuropsychiatrist.

— Gene Wilder

Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.

— Gene Wilder

Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.

— Gene Wilder

For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!

— Gene Wilder

On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

— Gene Wilder

When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.

— Gene Wilder

But the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me.

— Gene Wilder

I had improvised a lot in classes and at the Actors Studio, but I never did it in front of the camera.

— Gene Wilder

The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just.…

— Gene Wilder

I don't want to do 'Hamlet.' I don't want to do Robert Redford roles or Mel Gibson roles or Kevin Costner roles,…

— Gene Wilder

I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love…

— Gene Wilder

The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the…

— Gene Wilder

When you fall in love, and you're very young, you think that that's the love of your life. And maybe it is,…

— Gene Wilder

I'm stopped by mothers who say, 'Mr. Wilder, what advice would you give to my young boy? He's really talented.'

— Gene Wilder

[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…

— Gene Wilder

I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate.…

— Gene Wilder

Her business manager said, you know, Gilda [Radner] left you that house. That's when I decided to stay and test it out.…

— Gene Wilder

What did you expect? Welcome, sonny? Make yourself at home? Marry my daughter? You've got to remember that these are just simple…

— Gene Wilder

Sidney Poitier was directing a film called 'Hanky Panky.' And he said, 'Do you want to come with me to New York…

— Gene Wilder

My humor is - was quite different. Mine was "Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother" and "The World's Greatest Lover" and "Haunted Honeymoon," "The…

— Gene Wilder

I met [Gilda Radner] on the first night of filming ... Hanky Panky that Sidney Poitier was directing. And it's funny, I…

— Gene Wilder

If my mother hadn't laughed at the funny things I did, I probably wouldn't be a comic actor. After she had her…

— Gene Wilder

Because we had to convince the scientific members of Transylvania that with the procedure I was using on the creature, Dr. Frankenstein…

— Gene Wilder

I worked two days in Texas and two days in Hollywood on 'Bonnie and Clyde,' and that was it. I had no…

— Gene Wilder

I came home [after funerals] and I thought if I go back to California, where I had a small house, I don't…

— Gene Wilder

As they say in Corsica... Goodbye

— Gene Wilder

I feel alone and safe in public.

— Gene Wilder

Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?

— Gene Wilder

I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.

— Gene Wilder

What good is a character who's always winking at the audience to let them in on the secret?

— Gene Wilder

Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.

— Gene Wilder

I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor.

— Gene Wilder