Gene Wilder

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. ”

I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well. ”

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. ”

I've had a very good life and a very good career. I have no regrets. ”

I trust if your life is right, the right things will happen at the right time. If the chords are in harmony inside, I think other things will happen in the same way. That sounded highfalutin' to me once, but I believe it now. ”

I'm stopped by mothers who say, 'Mr. Wilder, what advice would you give to my young boy? He's really talented.' ”

I was a milksop as a kid. I had no confidence, no guts. I felt I was going to be someone else someday - someone who didn't have my weaknesses. ”

When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you. ”

I'm not a natural writer like, let's say - I'm not talking about Arthur Miller; that's a whole other thing - but let's say Woody Allen. But the more I've written, the more I've found that there is a deep well in me somewhere that wants to express things that I'm not going to find unless I write them myself. ”

The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God. ”