Gene Wilder Quotes - Page 2

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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

  Love, Ukulele, Careers

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• 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

  Thinking, Play, Stories

  "Wilder Asks, 'What Is This Thing Called Love?'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. March 30, 2010.

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

  Gene Wilder

  World, Audience

  Gene Wilder (2010). “Kiss Me Like A Stranger: My Search for Love and Art”, p.59, Macmillan

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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 a character in a fantastical situation, like Dr. Frankenstein, like Leo Bloom, a little caterpillar who blossoms into a butterfly. I love that.

  Gene Wilder

  Butterfly, Character, Creating

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• 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.

  Gene Wilder

  Acting, Actors, Comic

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

  Gene Wilder

  Inspirational, Life, Heart

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• At the time, I didn't know why, but I know now that when I was a little boy, I was scared to death of the Frankenstein films ... and in all these years later, I wanted it to come out with a happy ending, and I think it was my fear of the Frankenstein movies when I was 8 and 9 and 10 years old that made me want to write that story [Young Frankenstein].

  Gene Wilder

  Writing, Boys, Thinking

  Source: keranews.org

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• Her business manager said, you know, Gilda [Radner] left you that house. That's when I decided to stay and test it out. And after about a month, the roots grew, and I didn't ever want to live anywhere else for the rest of my life - travel, yes, but not to live anywhere else.

  Gene Wilder

  Roots, House, Want

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• 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

  Magic, Comedian, Directors

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• I met [Gilda Radner] on the first night of filming ... Hanky Panky that Sidney Poitier was directing. And it's funny, I was in costume and makeup - my tuxedo and makeup because I'd done a few shots before she arrived, and she told me later that she cried all the way in, in the car, because she knew that she was going to fall in love with me and want to get married.

  Gene Wilder

  Falling In Love, Makeup, Night

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

  Gene Wilder

  Acting, Fantasy, Kind

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• 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

  Mother, Believe, Giving

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

  Gene Wilder

  Zero, Authority, Form

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• 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

  Love, Art, Acting

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

  Gene Wilder

  Character, Delight, Calm

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

  Gene Wilder

  Real, Acting, Process

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• Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much more than I do acting only because well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk.

  Gene Wilder

  Hard Work, Writing, Thinking

  "Wilder Asks, 'What Is This Thing Called Love?'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. March 30, 2010.

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• I met Mel [Brooks] backstage in Anne's [Bancroft] dressing room. He was wearing one of those pea coats, pea jackets that were made famous by the Merchant Marines, and I admired it and he said, "You know, they used to call this a urine jacket, but it didn't sell."

  Gene Wilder

  Marine, Coats, Rooms

  Source: keranews.org

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• 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

  Children, Stupid, Silly

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Real, Comedian, Want

  "Gene Wilder Dies From Complications Of Alzheimer's At Age 83". "Morning Edition" with Bob Mondello, www.npr.org. August 30, 2016.

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• 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

  Mother, Thinking, Sick

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• 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

  Movie, Cities, Safety

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

  Gene Wilder

  Real, Actors, Want

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• [Gilda Radner] was in the in vitro fertilization program, and it nearly, nearly drove us apart, too. She wanted that baby, so badly, and it didn't work. Oddly enough, when we were doing "Haunted Honeymoon" in London, she did become pregnant for about 10 days, but then she lost it. But, anyway, my odyssey with Gilda was wonderful, funny, torturous, painful and sad. It was - it went the full gamut.

  Gene Wilder

  Baby, London, Odyssey

  Source: keranews.org

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

  Gene Wilder

  Alive, Remission, Wells

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