Character Quote by Gene Wilder

“In fact, [Gene Wilder] had made a hysteric seem considerably less funny in his film debut as a terrified undertaker in "Bonnie And Clyde." And neurotics soon became his stock-in-trade, whether he was playing the weird title character in "Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory..."”

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Dont put the sheep on the table.

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

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I'm an actor, not a clown.

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[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.

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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…

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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…

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Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.

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

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

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

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

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I always like a character who makes me laugh.

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself.

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