Gene Wilder Quotes And Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

I Feel Alone And Safe In Public.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

I've Read Everything Printed In English That Freud Has Written. It Helped Me A Great Deal.

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.'

Great Art Direction Is Not The Same Thing As Great Film Direction!

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.