QUOTES by 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.'"
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"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."
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"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."
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"Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it starts eating away at you, and they're waiting for more from me, or what can I do to top this, then you're in trouble. Just do what you love. That's all I want to do."
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"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."
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"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."
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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."
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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."
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"What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it."
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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."
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"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."
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"I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism."
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"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."
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"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."
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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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky."
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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."
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"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."
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"I'm stopped by mothers who say, 'Mr. Wilder, what advice would you give to my young boy? He's really talented.'"
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"I had a daughter and lost her a long while ago. That's too sad a story to go into."
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"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."
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"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"
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"The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God."
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"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.'"
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"When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you."
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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."
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"I've read everything printed in English that Freud has written. It helped me a great deal."
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"Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?"
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"If there's an audience, I think they're going to expect me to be funny. But what if I'm not funny? What if I fail?"
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"I don't want to do 'Hamlet.' I don't want to do Robert Redford roles or Mel Gibson roles or Kevin Costner roles, because I'm not going to be good at them."
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"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."
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"I live in a small town in Connecticut, and they don't write scripts there, but I get them anyway because my agent is in Los Angeles."
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"I'm not from Hollywood, and I'm also not one of the people who wants to do a tell-all, and I hate tell-alls. I didn't want to tell all."
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"When you fall in love, and you're very young, you think that that's the love of your life. And maybe it is, but it usually doesn't turn out that way."
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