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
mother thinking sick
I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's. I didn't think I had the right.
writing hard-work thinking
Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much more than I do acting only because, well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk.
thinking play stories
My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.
believe fate thinking
I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.
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.
sweet-love heart eye
What is essential is invisible to the eye,
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 ?
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.
character calm audience
Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded.
art film great-art
Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!
kids order red
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.
real wilder
Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.