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Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder
American Actor
Born: Jun 11, 1933
Died: Aug 29, 2016
Funny Life Love Me Think You
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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
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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. Gene Wilder
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I trust if your life is right, the right things will happen at the right time. If the chords are in harmony inside, I think other things will happen in the same way. That sounded highfalutin' to me once, but I believe it now. Gene Wilder
Life Time Me Trust Will Believe Think Other Harmony Once Right Things Right Time Way Inside Same Happen Your Chords Now Right Things
I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. Gene Wilder
Life Funny Sometimes Once Camera While
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
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I know a lot of sad people who aren't comedians. Gene Wilder
Sad People Know Comedians Lot Who
What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it. Gene Wilder
Life You Try Too Mel Brooks Brooks Performance Learned Audacity Go Maybe Far
Whatever simplicity I've achieved in writing, I think I owe most of it to Jean Renoir and Hemingway: simple, declarative sentences. I've read some very good writers, but the sentences were so long that I've forgotten what the point was. Gene Wilder
Good Writing Simple Simplicity Long Whatever Think Some Point Writers Most Read Were Very Owe Achieved Forgotten Sentences Jean Hemingway
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
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I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this. Gene Wilder
Me Director Joe Hopkins Magic Writer Comedians Said Anthony Hopkins Did Any Want Wanted Film
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. Gene Wilder
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I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well. Gene Wilder
Complete Alive Remission Well
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. Gene Wilder
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We all grew up on movies with scenes where the actor is lying, and you know he's lying, but he wants to make sure you know it's a lie, and so he overacts and all but winks at you, and everybody in the world except for the girl he's talking to knows he's lying. Gene Wilder
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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
Love Dance Joke Fall About Could Take Missed Sing Were Being Loved Then Really Trap Who Actor
And in 'Frisco Kid' and in 'The Woman in Red' I had to ride badly. Then you have to really ride well in order to ride badly. Gene Wilder
You Woman Ride Kid Had Badly Red Well Order Then Really
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
Love Funny Business Films Out Come Like Sound Want Mean Acting Show Show Business
I'm not so funny. Gilda was funny. I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. But she was funny. She spent more time worrying about being liked than anything else. Gene Wilder
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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. Gene Wilder
Think Favorite He Chekhov His Author Short Stories Short Stories Much Really Tutor Plays
Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much more than I do acting only because, well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk. Gene Wilder
Work Hard Work Me Writing Old Think More Only Like Well Partly Because Years Lots Offered Than Junk After Scripts Much Acting Hard Now Things Started
I'm stopped by mothers who say, 'Mr. Wilder, what advice would you give to my young boy? He's really talented.' Gene Wilder
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Sidney Poitier was directing a film called 'Hanky Panky.' And he said, 'Do you want to come with me to New York to see Gilda Radner in 'Lunch Hour' on Broadway? I said, 'I don't need to see her, I love her. I've wanted to write something for her for a long time. So it's OK by me.' Gene Wilder
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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. Gene Wilder
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I don't like giving speeches. It makes me nervous. Gene Wilder
Me Nervous Giving Like Makes Speeches
I'm an actor, not a clown. Gene Wilder
Clown Actor
If my mother hadn't laughed at the funny things I did, I probably wouldn't be a comic actor. After she had her first heart attack, the doctor said, 'Try to make her laugh.' And that was the first time I tried to make anyone laugh. Gene Wilder
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