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Gene Wilder Quotes: "As they say in Corsica... Goodbye!"

As they say in Corsica... Goodbye!



Gene Wilder Quotes: "Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple"

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple




Gene Wilder Quotes: "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 call it irony."

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 call it irony.



Gene Wilder Quotes: "So shines a good deed... in a weary world."

So shines a good deed... in a weary world.




Gene Wilder Quotes: "If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?"

If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?



Gene Wilder Quotes: "For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!"

For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!



Gene Wilder Quotes: "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?"

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?




Gene Wilder Quotes: "The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last."

The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.



Gene Wilder Quotes: "On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free."

On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.



Gene Wilder Quotes: "Dont put the sheep on the table."

Dont put the sheep on the table.



Gene Wilder Quotes: "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"

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



Gene Wilder Quotes: "To match the shoes with the jacket is fey. To match the shoes with the hat is taste."

To match the shoes with the jacket is fey. To match the shoes with the hat is taste.




Gene Wilder Quotes: "Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous."

Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.



Gene Wilder Quotes: "When you please your mother by doing something, it gives you confidence that you can please other people."

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



Gene Wilder Quotes: "I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while."

I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.



Gene Wilder Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor."

My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.



Gene Wilder Quotes: "Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?"

Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?



Gene Wilder Quotes: "Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?"

Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?



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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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

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



Gene Wilder Quotes: "Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political."

Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political.



Gene Wilder Quotes: "I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's. I didn't think I had the right."

I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's. I didn't think I had the right.



Gene Wilder Quotes: "But the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me."

But the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me.



Gene Wilder Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well."

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



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

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



Gene Wilder Quotes: "I'm not very funny in real life. I used to want to be a comedian when I was 13, 14, 15, till I saw "Death Of A Salesman" with Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock."

I'm not very funny in real life. I used to want to be a comedian when I was 13, 14, 15, till I saw "Death Of A Salesman" with Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock.



Gene Wilder Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.She made me believe that I could make someone laugh."

When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.She made me believe that I could make someone laugh.



Gene Wilder Quotes: "I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor."

I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor.



Gene Wilder Quotes: "Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!"

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



Gene Wilder Quotes: "I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a connoisseur of New York Jewish humor."

I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a connoisseur of New York Jewish humor.



Gene Wilder Quotes: "I had improvised a lot in classes and at the Actors Studio, but I never did it in front of the camera."

I had improvised a lot in classes and at the Actors Studio, but I never did it in front of the camera.



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

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



Gene Wilder Quotes: "Zero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most."

Zero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most.



Gene Wilder Quotes: "I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but to prevent me from enjoying my own life."

I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but to prevent me from enjoying my own life.



Gene Wilder Quotes: "I put out my hand to shake hands with Zero Mostel, and he took my hand [and] he pulled me up to his face, and he gave me a kiss on the lips. And all my nervousness went out the window."

I put out my hand to shake hands with Zero Mostel, and he took my hand [and] he pulled me up to his face, and he gave me a kiss on the lips. And all my nervousness went out the window.



Gene Wilder Quotes: "[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."

[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.



Gene Wilder Quotes: "I met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting."

I met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting.



Gene Wilder Quotes: "I had a daughter and lost her a long while ago. That's too sad a story to go into."

I had a daughter and lost her a long while ago. That's too sad a story to go into.



Gene Wilder Quotes: "I know a lot of sad people who aren't comedians."

I know a lot of sad people who aren't comedians.



Gene Wilder Quotes: "I feel alone and safe in public."

I feel alone and safe in public.