[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… — 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
We gave each other a hug, [Richard Pryor] said how much he admired me, I said how much I admired him, and… — 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
You say the character [of Leo Bloom] was meek and insecure, and you could've been describing me as well. I was a… — 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
![“[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)
![“We gave each other a hug, [Richard Pryor] said how much he admired me, I said how much I admired him, and we started working the next morning, and we hit it off really well, and he taught me how to improvise on camera.” quote by Gene Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3ee/gene-wilder-3914_cameras_we-gave-each-other-a-hug-richard-pryor-s_1690558.jpg)
![“You say the character [of Leo Bloom] was meek and insecure, and you could've been describing me as well. I was a very shy person in those days, and working with Zero [Mostel], who was bigger than life, helped me grow. Zero was a strong influence on me.” quote by Gene Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/668/gene-wilder-3914_bigger_you-say-the-character-of-leo-bloom-was-m_2953858.jpg)
