I'm stopped by mothers who say, 'Mr. Wilder, what advice would you give to my young boy? He's really talented.' — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
When you please your mother by doing something, it gives you confidence that you can please other people. — 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
I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's.… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was ugly. My… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.She made me believe that I… — 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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![“[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 - well, it's called complete remission, but I'm cured. I'm fine.” quote by Gene Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a19/gene-wilder-3914_died_gilda-radner-died-in-89-and-i-got-non-ho_55482.jpg)
