Feel Quotes

I'm an actor, not a clown.

Gene Wilder

Tags: Actor Clown

I had a unique form: a Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Gene Wilder

Tags: Had Form Unique

I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well.

Gene Wilder

Tags: Well Alive Complete

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

Gene Wilder

Tags: Great Thing Same

Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.

Gene Wilder

Tags: Most Fact Interesting

I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life, and then you call it fate.

Gene Wilder

Tags: You Think Life

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?

Gene Wilder

Tags: Funny Me Think

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.

Gene Wilder

Tags: Want Being I Can

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

Tags: Who Had Going

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.

Gene Wilder

Tags: Good Because Want

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

Tags: You Think Out

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

Gene Wilder

Tags: Time Out Much

Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.

Gene Wilder

Tags: About Who Really

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.'

Gene Wilder

Tags: Great You Would

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.

Gene Wilder

Tags: Time Funny About

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

Tags: Dad Me Just

If my mother hadn't laughed at the funny things I did, I probably wouldn't be a comic actor. After she had her first heart attack, the doctor said, 'Try to make her laugh.' And that was the first time I tried to make anyone laugh.

Gene Wilder

Tags: Time Funny Had

I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have another chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.

Gene Wilder

Tags: Chance You Because

Sidney Poitier was directing a film called 'Hanky Panky.' And he said, 'Do you want to come with me to New York to see Gilda Radner in 'Lunch Hour' on Broadway? I said, 'I don't need to see her, I love her. I've wanted to write something for her for a long time. So it's OK by me.'

Gene Wilder

Tags: Time You Me

I worked two days in Texas and two days in Hollywood on 'Bonnie and Clyde,' and that was it. I had no idea how it was going to turn out. And when I saw it, I was so upset, or fascinated, or something, by the sight of myself on the screen that I could hardly pay attention to the rest of the movie.

Gene Wilder

Tags: Out Had Going