Gene Wilder Quotes

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• Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

  Gene Wilder

  Inspirational, Directors, Waste

  "Fictional character: Willy Wonka". "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory", www.imdb.com. 1971.

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• As they say in Corsica... Goodbye!

  Gene Wilder

  Movie, Goodbye, Farewell

  "Fictional character: Claude". "Start the Revolution Without Me", www.imdb.com. 1970.

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

  Gene Wilder

  Funny, Humorous, Directors

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• 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

  Life, Believe, Fate

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

  Gene Wilder

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Helping Others

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

  Gene Wilder

  Talking, Telling The Truth, Ifs

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

  Gene Wilder

  Future, Genius, Entering

  "Young Frankenstein". www.imdb.com. 1974.

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• What did you expect? 'Welcome, sonny?' 'Make yourself at home?' 'Marry my daughter?' You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons.

  Gene Wilder

  Daughter, Home, Simple

  "Fictional character: Jim". "Blazing Saddles", www.imdb.com. 1974.

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

  Gene Wilder

  Funny, Wise, Wisdom

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

  Gene Wilder

  Funny, Suspense, Lasts

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

  Gene Wilder

  Stage, Wanted

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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

  Believe, Names, Devil

  "An Interview with Gene Wilder on a Career in Comedy and the First Person He Tried to Make Laugh: His Mother". Interview with Brian Braiker, www.newsweek.com. March 17, 2005.

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• Dont put the sheep on the table.

  Gene Wilder

  Sheep, Tables

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• I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.

  Gene Wilder

  Book, Home, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Real, Being Real, Physical Things

  Gene Wilder (2010). “Kiss Me Like A Stranger: My Search for Love and Art”, p.149, Macmillan

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• Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.

  Gene Wilder

  Littles, Surprise, Dangerous

  "Fictional character: Willy Wonka". "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory", www.imdb.com. 1971.

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

  Gene Wilder

  Shoes, Fey, Taste

  "Gene Wilder: a comic enigma whose genius shone brightest in collaboration" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2016.

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• The big catalyst was seeing my sister, when I was 11, doing a dramatic recital. When I saw her on the stage and everyone listening to her so patiently, quietly, that's all I wanted: for someone to look at me and listen to me, but in some beautiful and artistic way.

  Gene Wilder

  Beautiful, Listening, Looks

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

  Gene Wilder

  Mother, People, Giving

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

  Gene Wilder

  Cameras, Sometimes, Sometimes In Life

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Writing, Track, Laughing

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

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• 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

  Ideas, Trying, Too Much

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

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• 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

  Fall, Being In Love, Actors

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• My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.

  Gene Wilder

  Mistake, Character, Should Have

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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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