Quotes from Gene Wilder

I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.

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.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?

I don't like giving speeches. It makes me nervous.

I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have another chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.

When I was in desperate trouble for maybe eight or nine years, I went to a neuropsychiatrist.

I had a unique form: a Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

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 worked two days in Texas and two days in Hollywood on 'Bonnie and Clyde,' and that was it. I had no idea how it was going to turn out. And when I saw it, I was so upset, or fascinated, or something, by the sight of myself on the screen that I could hardly pay attention to the rest of the movie.

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

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier

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

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