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. Gene Wilder Read Quote
I was a milksop as a kid. I had no confidence, no guts. I felt I was going to be someone else someday – someone who didn’t have my weaknesses. Gene Wilder Read Quote
I didn’t want to be a comedian. I wanted to be an actor – maybe a comic actor, but a real actor – by real, I mean not a comedian. I wanted to be an actor. Gene Wilder Read Quote
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. Gene Wilder Read Quote
I’m not a natural writer like, let’s say – I’m not talking about Arthur Miller; that’s a whole other thing – but let’s say Woody Allen. But the more I’ve written, the more I’ve found that there is a deep well in me somewhere that wants to express things that I’m not going to find unless I write them myself. Gene Wilder Read Quote
What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity – in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it. Gene Wilder Read Quote
When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you. Gene Wilder Read Quote
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 Read Quote