128 Quotes by Gene Wilder

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

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

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

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."

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.

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

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'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.

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