Gene Wilder Quotes

I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Climbing hills was never one of my great ambitions. Perhaps I was just lazy, but I admit
now that I've been climbing a hill every other day
that it's very difficult to think about the stresses in your life while you're trying to avoid falling backwards when a goat with large horns is chasing you because you came too close to the little patch of grass he was planning to eat for breakfast.

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

I like - it's not that I want to be someone different from me, but I suppose it partly is that. I love creating a character in a fantastical situation, like Dr. Frankenstein, like Leo Bloom, a little caterpillar who blossoms into a butterfly. I love that.

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.

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

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.

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

My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suffering? So whenever I got happy about something, I felt the need to cut it off, and the only way to cut it off was to pray. 'Forgive me Lord.' For what, I didn't know.

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

Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.

dont put the sheep on the table

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.

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

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

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