On screen, Gene Wilder could often be summed up as an accident waiting to happen, that frizzy, flyaway hair, the eyes darting… — 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 met [Gilda Radner] on the first night of filming ... Hanky Panky that Sidney Poitier was directing. And it's funny, I… — 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
[ Zero Mostel] would tell anyone anything, not to be impolite, but he'd show that he wasn't at all afraid of however… — 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
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
The big catalyst was seeing my sister, when I was 11, doing a dramatic recital. When I saw her on the stage… — 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