I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a… — 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
I'm not a natural writer like, let's say - I'm not talking about Arthur Miller; that's a whole other thing - but… — 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
Whatever simplicity I've achieved in writing, I think I owe most of it to Jean Renoir and Hemingway: simple, declarative sentences. I've… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
When people, especially from France, would ask me to talk about or so they could write about New York Jewish humor, I'd… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer… — 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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