Actor Wasn Quotes by Gene Wilder

Dont put the sheep on the table.

— Gene Wilder

When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.

— Gene Wilder

I'm an actor, not a clown.

— 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 you call…

— Gene Wilder

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

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

Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.

— Gene Wilder

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

— Gene Wilder

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

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

— Gene Wilder

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

— Gene Wilder

What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it.

— Gene Wilder

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

Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded.

— Gene Wilder

I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

— Gene Wilder