I met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting. — 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
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
Anyway, when I got out of the Army, I went to see a therapist. And she said, what seems to be the… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that,… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
![“With Mel [Brooks], only one time and that was later on during "Young Frankenstein" - never with Zero [Mostel] and never with Mel except I was writing every day, and then Mel would come to the house and read what I'd written. And then he'd say, yeah, yeah, yeah, OK, yeah, OK. But we need a villain…” quote by Gene Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4f4/gene-wilder-3914_brooks_with-mel-brooks-only-one-time-and-that-w_602487.jpg)
![“[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)
