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    Gene Wilder

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    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

    #doing #feel #i #i feel #idea

    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.' ↗


    — Gene Wilder

    #child #childish #comic #comics #derive

    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 #could #dance #fall #into

    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. ↗


    — Gene Wilder

    #had #i #kid #order #really

    Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction! ↗


    — Gene Wilder

    #direction #film #great #great art #same

    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

    #business #come #films #funny #i

    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

    #anthony hopkins #any #called #comedians #did

    I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it. ↗


    — Gene Wilder

    #get #i #i can #i write #know

    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

    #admire #career #comedy #emma #her

    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. ↗


    — Gene Wilder

    #anything #being #camera #else #funny






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    Wilder has directed and written several of his films including The Woman in Red (1984). Wilder was drafted into the Army on September 10 1956. " When Jeanne Silberman felt that her son's potential was not being fully realized in Wisconsin Gene Wilder sent him to Black-Foxe a military institute in Hollywood where he wrote that he was bullied and sexually assaulted primarily because he was the only Jewish boy in the school.

    Wilder began his career on stage and made his screen debut in the TV-series Armstrong Circle Theatre in 1962. Wilder has directed and written several of his films including The Woman in Red (1984). This was the first in a series of collaborations with writer/director Mel Brooks including 1974's Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein the latter of which garnered the pair an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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