Wilder Quotes - Page 2

• My parents took me to that I think is just one of those near-perfect comedies is Young Frankenstein. Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks, they're at the height of their game. The two of them working together was amazing. Yeah, just a terrific story. You get emotionally involved. Jokes all the time, jokes that come from story. Like, they don't have to go wildly out of their way to make the jokes. It's a parody of Frankenstein movies, but also it stands as one of the great ones, one of the great Frankenstein movies.

  Doug Benson

  Thinking, Two, Games

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was immediately into all the great movie comedians - Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder. Everything those guys had anything to do with, from I don't know how young. Super young.

  Doug Benson

  Guy, Comedian, Woody

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• Kaz's wilder work captures the great beauty of the human heart and the natural world.

  Joan Halifax

  Heart, World, Natural

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• I could never be Charlie Chaplin. But the films that were made by people like him, or Gene Wilder, or John Candy, the people that inspired me so much were the people that were able to combine humor with heartbreak so beautifully and fluidly. Those films I think were what inspired me to want to come to L.A. and audition for movies.

  Emma Stone

  Thinking, People, Want

  "Extended transcript: Emma Stone". www.cbsnews.com. February 12, 2017.

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• Mr. Trump is Mr. Trump. I'm Mr. Wilders. I'm not anybody's copy or whatsoever.

  Geert Wilders

  Trump, Copies

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• When we spoke, Gene Wilder had just written a memoir called "Kiss Me Like A Stranger." The title was suggested by his late wife Gilda Radner three weeks before she died in 1989.

  Terry Gross

  Kissing, Wife, Titles

  Source: keranews.org

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• Gene Wilder made his movie debut in "Bonnie And Clyde," starred in the Mel Brooks films "The Producers," "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles," played opposite Richard Pryor in "Silver Streak" and "Stir Crazy" and portrayed the candy-maker in "Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory."

  Terry Gross

  Crazy, Opposites, Chocolate

  Source: keranews.org

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• 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..."

  Gene Wilder

  Character, Chocolate, Titles

  Source: www.npr.org

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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.

  Gene Wilder

  Jobs, Real, Actors

  Source: www.npr.org

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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 and that and then something would set him off, Zero Mostel, say, in the movie that made Wilder a star, "The Producers."

  Gene Wilder

  Stars, Zero, Eye

  Source: www.npr.org

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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

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm proud of the fact that Marine Le Pen in France insults me and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands calls me his opponent. The way I see it is, if these people weren't attacking me, I would be doing something wrong.

  Martin Schulz

  Marine, People, Would Be

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• So, one, that DJ Spooky is a lot you know this sort of wilder persona and then Paul Miller is more of a nuts and bolts kind of person, meaning just making sure all these things work.

  DJ Spooky

  Nuts, Kind, Spooky

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

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• When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again.

  Andre Benjamin

  Character, Mirrors, Clothes

  "Rapped up in tweed" by Simon Mills, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2008.

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• The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Garden, Sea

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.826, Delphi Classics

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• When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better!

  Andrea Bocelli

  Horse, Men, Action

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• There was French kissing, and then there was Cajun French kissing. Spicier, harder, wilder.

  Kresley Cole

  Kissing, Cajuns, French Kiss

  Kresley Cole (2013). “Endless Knight”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• To call them emotional comedies sounds cloying. Like Billy Wilder said, 'You want to make them laugh and you want to make them cry,' and it's very hard to do so. If you ground it in reality, you get a more honest comedy. You don't have to reach for jokes to manufacture situations as much. And I think it's a type of film I do best.

  Charles Shyer

  Emotional, Thinking, Reality

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• Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows are that the Grammys are much wilder. The Oscars is much more people in the industry. And people dress wilder, I think, at the Grammys.

  Steve Martin

  Thinking, Differences, People

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• You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.

  Werner Herzog

  Fighting, Rumours

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

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• Turn the lights down, the party just got wilder.

  Dan Rather

  Party, Light, Turns

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• One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.

  Mel Brooks

  One Day, Rabbits, Lambs

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• The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Hipster, Crazy

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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• [...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

  Jim Morrison

  Risk, Fusion, Losing

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• The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former grows ever wilder, ever more dysfunctional in its extremities; whilst the latter seeks to increase its measure of control, until such efforts acquire diabolical tyranny.' - Traveller

  Steven Erikson

  War, Civilization, Effort

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