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
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 Copy Share Image
I'm not very funny in real life. I used to want to be a comedian when I was 13, 14, 15, till… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate.… — 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
I'm not so funny. Gilda was funny. I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life, and then you call it fate. — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I trust if your life is right, the right things will happen at the right time. If the chords are in harmony… — 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
You say the character [of Leo Bloom] was meek and insecure, and you could've been describing me as well. I was a… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suffering?… — 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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