Acting Quote by Gene Wilder

“I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.” quote by Gene Wilder — Download Open image

“I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.”

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

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