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
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 love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have another chance if you want it. You know,… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free. — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it starts eating away at… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
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 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
Sidney Poitier was directing a film called 'Hanky Panky.' And he said, 'Do you want to come with me to New York… — 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