With Mel [Brooks], only one time and that was later on during "Young Frankenstein" - never with Zero [Mostel] and never with… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
And Mel [Brooks] - you have to understand this important point - he had done "The Producers" for $50,000 over two years,… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I met Mel [Brooks] backstage in Anne's [Bancroft] dressing room. He was wearing one of those pea coats, pea jackets that were… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
[ Zero Mostel] would tell anyone anything, not to be impolite, but he'd show that he wasn't at all afraid of however… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
When people, especially from France, would ask me to talk about or so they could write about New York Jewish humor, I'd… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I was miscast in that production [of Mother Courage and Her Children] ... but it was with Anne Bancroft, whose boyfriend at… — 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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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
When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy. — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
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 Image
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