I came home [after funerals] and I thought if I go back to California, where I had a small house, I don't… — 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 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
My humor is - was quite different. Mine was "Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother" and "The World's Greatest Lover" and "Haunted Honeymoon," "The… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
At the time, I didn't know why, but I know now that when I was a little boy, I was scared to… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
My agent at the time, Mike Medavoy, before he became a movie mogul, called me up and said, how about a movie… — 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