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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
#Comedians
#Film
#Magic
#Me
#Want
I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was ugly. My dad heard it and just laughed it off, but I felt guilty. It haunted me for years. I should never have said that.
- Gene Wilder
#Beautiful
#Dad
#Guilty
#Me
#Stupid
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
#Behavior
#Childish
#Doing
#Great
#Say
I'm stopped by mothers who say, 'Mr. Wilder, what advice would you give to my young boy? He's really talented.'
- Gene Wilder
#Advice
#Boy
#Say
#Who
#Young
I live in a small town in Connecticut, and they don't write scripts there, but I get them anyway because my agent is in Los Angeles.
- Gene Wilder
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#Get
#Live
#Small
#Town
If my mother hadn't laughed at the funny things I did, I probably wouldn't be a comic actor. After she had her first heart attack, the doctor said, 'Try to make her laugh.' And that was the first time I tried to make anyone laugh.
- Gene Wilder
#Doctor
#Funny
#Heart
#Laugh
#Time
What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it.
- Gene Wilder
#Far
#Go
#Life
#Performance
#Try
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
#Demons
#God
#Name
#Time
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
#Favorite
#He
#Short
#Think
#Tutor
I was a milksop as a kid. I had no confidence, no guts. I felt I was going to be someone else someday - someone who didn't have my weaknesses.
- Gene Wilder
#Confidence
#Going
#Guts
#Someone
#Who
My wife and I water color, paint water colors.
- Gene Wilder
#Color
#Colors
#Paint
#Water
#Wife
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
#Doing
#Feel
#Time
#Too Much
#Trying
What do actors really want? To be great actors? Yes, but you can't buy talent, so it's best to leave the word 'great' out of it. I think to be believed, onstage or onscreen, is the one hope that all actors share.
- Gene Wilder
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#Great
#Hope
#Leave
#Talent
I've had a very good life and a very good career. I have no regrets.
- Gene Wilder
#Good Life
#Good
#Had
#Life
#No Regrets
I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life, and then you call it fate.
- Gene Wilder
#Believe
#Fate
#Life
#Never
#Own
I don't like giving speeches. It makes me nervous.
- Gene Wilder
#Giving
#Like
#Makes
#Me
#Nervous
Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it starts eating away at you, and they're waiting for more from me, or what can I do to top this, then you're in trouble. Just do what you love. That's all I want to do.
- Gene Wilder
#Do What You Love
#Love
#Success
#Waiting
I trust if your life is right, the right things will happen at the right time. If the chords are in harmony inside, I think other things will happen in the same way. That sounded highfalutin' to me once, but I believe it now.
- Gene Wilder
#Believe
#Life
#Me
#Time
#Trust
If there's an audience, I think they're going to expect me to be funny. But what if I'm not funny? What if I fail?
- Gene Wilder
#Audience
#Funny
#Me
#Think
#What If
I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.
- Gene Wilder
#Camera
#Funny
#Life
#Once
#Sometimes
I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.
- Gene Wilder
#About
#Become
#Death
#Me
#Things
I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito.
- Gene Wilder
#Do Unto Others
#Others
#Religion
#Tell
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