Gene Wilder

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

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

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

My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suffering? So whenever I got happy about something, I felt the need to cut it off, and the only way to cut it off was to pray. 'Forgive me Lord.' For what, I didn't know. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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? ”

Mel Brooks is one of the few authentic geniuses working in comedy in America today. ”

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. ”

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. ”