Gene Wilder Quotes

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• I like - it's not that I want to be someone different from me, but I suppose it partly is that. I love creating a…
• Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?
• If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier
• A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?
• I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I…
• The big catalyst was seeing my sister, when I was 11, doing a dramatic recital. When I saw her on the stage and everyone listening…
• For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!
• The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.
• Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!
• A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a…
• Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance,…
• I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we -…
• And in 'Frisco Kid' and in 'The Woman in Red' I had to ride badly. Then you have to really ride well in order to…
• I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love…
• I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe…
• I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin.…
• I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it…
• So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap…
• But the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me.
• I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well.

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