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
careers actresses comedy
I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.
mean men wisest-man
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?
real being-real ifs
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
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.
heart fancy
Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?
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.
acting actors comic
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.
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.
cameras sometimes sometimes-in-life
I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.
ideas trying too-much
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.
comedian magic want
I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.
acting kind fantasy
I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.
world audience
Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?
funny wife
I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.