Author: Gene Wilder

Quotes

I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

- Gene Wilder

I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life, and then you call it fate.

I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life, and then you call it fate.

- Gene Wilder

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.'

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

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.

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

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

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

- Gene Wilder

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.

- Gene Wilder

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.

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

The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time.

The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time.

- Gene Wilder

The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

- Gene Wilder

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