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
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
Zero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most. — 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
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
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
I put out my hand to shake hands with Zero Mostel, and he took my hand [and] he pulled me up 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)
![“[ Zero Mostel] would tell anyone anything, not to be impolite, but he'd show that he wasn't at all afraid of however much money that person [had] or whatever title they had in a company. It didn't scare him. Mel [Brooks] was very much the same way.” quote by Gene Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4d0/gene-wilder-3914_brooks_zero-mostel-would-tell-anyone-anything-n_2656684.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)
![“I put out my hand to shake hands with Zero Mostel, and he took my hand [and] he pulled me up to his face, and he gave me a kiss on the lips. And all my nervousness went out the window.” quote by Gene Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b08/gene-wilder-3914_faces_i-put-out-my-hand-to-shake-hands-with-ze_3012084.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)
