Top 63 Quotes by Gene Wilder

I know a lot of sad people who aren't comedians.

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.

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

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.

What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it.

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.'

I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.

I'm an actor, not a clown.

I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito.

What good is a character who's always winking at the audience to let them in on the secret?