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
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.
cameras sometimes sometimes-in-life
I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.
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.
sweet-love heart eye
What is essential is invisible to the eye,
funny wife
I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.
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 ?
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.
alive remission wells
I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well.
eye waiting producers
On screen, Gene Wilder could often be summed up as an accident waiting to happen, that frizzy, flyaway hair, the eyes darting this way and that and then something would set him off, Zero Mostel, say, in the movie that made Wilder a star, "The Producers."
movie cities safety
Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political.
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.
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.
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.
real real-life comedian
I'm not very funny in real life. I used to want to be a comedian when I was 13, 14, 15, till I saw "Death Of A Salesman" with Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock.