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I'm an actor, not a clown.
Dont put the sheep on the table.
As they say in Corsica... Goodbye!
Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.
So shines a good deed... in a weary world.
The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.
My wife and I water color, paint water colors.
I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well.
I know a lot of sad people who aren't comedians.
Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?
I don't like giving speeches. It makes me nervous.
If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?
Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.
I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor.
Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!
There seems to be a pattern. I get one good script every two years.
I've had a very good life and a very good career. I have no regrets.
On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.
I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.
I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.
Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.
For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!
Mel Brooks is one of the few authentic geniuses working in comedy in America today.
To match the shoes with the jacket is fey. To match the shoes with the hat is taste.
I've read everything printed in English that Freud has written. It helped me a great deal.
I met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting.
What good is a character who's always winking at the audience to let them in on the secret?
When I was in desperate trouble for maybe eight or nine years, I went to a neuropsychiatrist.
I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.
I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life, and then you call it fate.
Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?
But the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me.
Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.
Zero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most.
When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.
When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.
I had improvised a lot in classes and at the Actors Studio, but I never did it in front of the camera.
Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded.
When you please your mother by doing something, it gives you confidence that you can please other people.
What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it.
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple
I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.
I'm stopped by mothers who say, 'Mr. Wilder, what advice would you give to my young boy? He's really talented.'
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?
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?
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.
I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito.
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.
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
My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.