Gene Wilder Quotes

• 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 out of it.

  Gene Wilder

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  Tags in Self, Idea, Neurotic

• I’m not so funny. Gilda was funny. I’m funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. But she was funny. She spent more time worrying about being liked than anything else.

  Gene Wilder

  Topics in Funny, Life

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• 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 until recently that her whole career started in comedy.

  Gene Wilder

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  Tags in Celebrity, Career, Comedy

• 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. And I have a tendency towards it.

  Gene Wilder

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Self, Writing

• I wanted to do – there was this film called ‘Magic’ that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don’t want any comedians in this.

  Gene Wilder

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• I never thought of it as God. I didn’t know what to call it. I don’t believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

  Gene Wilder

  Topics in God

• I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we – if this isn’t going well, you can’t say – well, you could say – let’s stop. Let’s start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.

  Gene Wilder

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Self -Love, Acting

• 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 acting in films. I love it.

  Gene Wilder

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Self -Love, Acting

• Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

  Gene Wilder

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Film, Direction, Difference

• 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 ride badly.

  Gene Wilder

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Self, Acting

• Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do – sing, dance, joke about – then they take that as love.

  Gene Wilder

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  Tags in Actors And Acting

• 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 child would do.’

  Gene Wilder

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  Tags in Actors, Childish, Behavior

Gene Wilder (12)

Birth:	11th June, 1933
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Author, Comedian, Film Director, Screenwriter

About

Jerome Silberman, known professionally as Gene Wilder was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He is an American stage and screen comic actor, author, screenwriter, and film director. His first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1968 film The Producers for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His role in several films include: Bonnie and Clyde, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silver Streak, Stir Crazy, Another You, and The Woman in Red. He directed several films include: The World's Greatest Lover, The Woman in Red, and Haunted Honeymoon. He has written several films include: The World's Greatest Lover, The Woman in Red, Haunted Honeymoon, and See No Evil, Hear No Evil. He has written several books include: Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art(memoir), What Is This Thing Called Love?, My French Whore(novel), The Woman Who Wouldn't, and Something to Remember You By.

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