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
books-and-movies geek invention
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple
goodbye
As they say in Corsica... Goodbye
waste precious-things
Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.
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.
real acting process
But the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me.
real wilder
Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.
art film great-art
Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!
children silly actors
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.
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.
art acting want
I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther 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.
real comic
I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor.
character calm audience
Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded.