What did you expect? 'Welcome, sonny?' 'Make yourself at home?' 'Marry my daughter?' You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons. Gene Wilder More Quotes by Gene Wilder More Quotes From Gene Wilder 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. Gene Wilder creating butterfly character My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character. Gene Wilder should-have mistake character I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it. Gene Wilder acting business mean 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. Gene Wilder comic actors acting 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. Gene Wilder stories play thinking 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. Gene Wilder ukulele careers love Where is fancy bred, Gene Wilder heart inspirational life Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching? Gene Wilder audience world 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. Gene Wilder too-much trying ideas Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded. Gene Wilder calm delight character Her business manager said, you know, Gilda [Radner] left you that house. That's when I decided to stay and test it out. And after about a month, the roots grew, and I didn't ever want to live anywhere else for the rest of my life - travel, yes, but not to live anywhere else. Gene Wilder roots house want When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.She made me believe that I could make someone laugh. Gene Wilder mother giving believe Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love. Gene Wilder being-in-love actors fall 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. Gene Wilder comedian magic directors 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. Gene Wilder comedian real want I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism. Gene Wilder fantasy acting kind 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. Gene Wilder acting love art 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. Gene Wilder hard-work writing thinking 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. Gene Wilder sick mother thinking But the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me. Gene Wilder acting real process
