Gene Wilder Quotes
"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
(Related: Time, Idea, Trying, Wrong)
"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."
- Gene Wilder
(Related: Love, Career, Comedy)
"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
(Related: Comedians, Film, Want, Writer)
"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
(Related: Time, God, Thought, Name)
"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
(Related: Love, Business, Funny, Acting, Sound, Want)
"Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!"
- Gene Wilder
(Related: Art, Direction, Film)
"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
(Related: Order, Woman)
"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
(Related: Love, Dance, Actors, Being)
"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
(Related: Actors, Behavior, Force, Silly)
"I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther 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."
- Gene Wilder
(Related: Art, Love, Acting, Chance, Film, Want)
"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
(Related: Funny, Time, Life, Being)