Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder
Jerome Silberman, known professionally as Gene Wilder, is an American stage and screen comic actor, screenwriter, and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth11 June 1933
CityMilwaukee, WI
CountryUnited States of America
character calm audience
Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded.
butterfly character creating
I like - it's not that I want to be someone different from me, but I suppose it partly is that. I love creating a character in a fantastical situation, like Dr. Frankenstein, like Leo Bloom, a little caterpillar who blossoms into a butterfly. I love that.
character chocolate film
In fact, [Gene Wilder] had made a hysteric seem considerably less funny in his film debut as a terrified undertaker in "Bonnie And Clyde." And neurotics soon became his stock-in-trade, whether he was playing the weird title character in "Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory..."
mistake character should-have
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.
gene mean men nonsense wilder wisest
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.'This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?
sweet-love heart eye
What is essential is invisible to the eye,
funny wife
I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.
camera funny liked spent time worrying
I'm not so funny. Gilda was funny. I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. But she was funny. She spent more time worrying about being liked than anything else.
cut felt life suffering whenever
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.
aura tough watching wrestle
Just watching them wrestle . . . they have that aura about them. They've been there, they know what is going on and they know how to take charge. They will be tough for any of us to defeat.
mother people giving
When you please your mother by doing something, it gives you confidence that you can please other people.
shoes taste hats
To match the shoes with the jacket is fey. To match the shoes with the hat is taste.
littles surprise dangerous
Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.
beautiful listening looks
The big catalyst was seeing my sister, when I was 11, doing a dramatic recital. When I saw her on the stage and everyone listening to her so patiently, quietly, that's all I wanted: for someone to look at me and listen to me, but in some beautiful and artistic way.