I had a daughter and lost her a long while ago. That’s too sad a story to go into. Gene Wilder Read Quote
I love acting, especially if it’s a fantasy of some kind, where it’s not just realistic, it’s not naturalism. Gene Wilder Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Gene Wilder Read Quote
I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life, and then you call it fate. Gene Wilder Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote