What do actors really want? To be great actors? Yes, but you can’t buy talent, so it’s best to leave the word ‘great’ out of it. I think to be believed, onstage or onscreen, is the one hope that all actors share. Gene Wilder Read Quote
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. Gene Wilder Read Quote
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. Gene Wilder Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I feel very Jewish, and I feel very grateful to be Jewish. But I don’t believe in God or anything to do with the Jewish religion. Gene Wilder Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
