Gene Wilder Quotes

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

As they say in Corsica... Goodbye!

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

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.

So shines a good deed... in a weary world.

If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!

What did you expect? 'Welcome, sonny?' 'Make yourself at home?' 'Marry my daughter?' You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?

The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.

On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

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.

Dont put the sheep on the table.

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.

If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier

Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.

To match the shoes with the jacket is fey. To match the shoes with the hat is taste.

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.

When you please your mother by doing something, it gives you confidence that you can please other people.

I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.

I met [Gilda Radner] on the first night of filming ... Hanky Panky that Sidney Poitier was directing. And it's funny, I was in costume and makeup - my tuxedo and makeup because I'd done a few shots before she arrived, and she told me later that she cried all the way in, in the car, because she knew that she was going to fall in love with me and want to get married.

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it.

Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?

I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?