Author: Gene Wilder

Quotes

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

I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito.

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

I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.

I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.

- Gene Wilder

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.

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

I've had a very good life and a very good career. I have no regrets.

I've had a very good life and a very good career. I have no regrets.

- 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

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

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

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

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