Gene Wilder

Dont put the sheep on the table.

— Gene Wilder

When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.

— Gene Wilder

I'm an actor, not a clown.

— Gene Wilder

[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

I like - it's not that I want to be someone different from me, but I suppose it partly is that. I…

— Gene Wilder

I live in a small town in Connecticut, and they don't write scripts there, but I get them anyway because my agent…

— Gene Wilder

Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.

— Gene Wilder

I don't like giving speeches. It makes me nervous.

— Gene Wilder

On screen, Gene Wilder could often be summed up as an accident waiting to happen, that frizzy, flyaway hair, the eyes darting…

— Gene Wilder

Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.

— Gene Wilder

When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.

— Gene Wilder

What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it.

— Gene Wilder

I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato.…

— Gene Wilder

Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded.

— Gene Wilder

I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

— Gene Wilder

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say,…

— Gene Wilder

I was a milksop as a kid. I had no confidence, no guts. I felt I was going to be someone else…

— Gene Wilder

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

If there's an audience, I think they're going to expect me to be funny. But what if I'm not funny? What if…

— Gene Wilder

When you please your mother by doing something, it gives you confidence that you can please other people.

— Gene Wilder

I came home [after funerals] and I thought if I go back to California, where I had a small house, I don't…

— Gene Wilder

With Mel [Brooks], only one time and that was later on during "Young Frankenstein" - never with Zero [Mostel] and never with…

— Gene Wilder

I worked two days in Texas and two days in Hollywood on 'Bonnie and Clyde,' and that was it. I had no…

— Gene Wilder

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

I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well.

— Gene Wilder