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Gene Wilder Biography

Jerome Silberman (June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016), known professionally as Gene Wilder, was an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, singer-songwriter and author.

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Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political.

10000, Cities, Illuminate, Movie, Safety, Topical

If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it. . . Just be real and it will be funnier

Act, Being Real, Funnier, Funny, Physical Things, Real

I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a connoisseur of New York Jewish humor.

Brooks, Jewish, New York, People, Three, York

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.

Acting, Actors, Comic, Act, Actor

Anyway, when I got out of the Army, I went to see a therapist. And she said, what seems to be the trouble? And I said I want to give all my money away. And she said, how much do you have? And I said, I owe $300. She stared at me for several seconds, and she said, I see. Well, let's get to work. And maybe by the time you do have some money, you'll be wise enough to know what to do with it.

Army, Giving, See, Time, Wise

So shines a good deed. . . in a weary world.

Deed, Good, Helping Others, Thank You, Veterans Day, World

If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

Gonna, Ifs, Start, Talking, Telling The Truth, Truth

Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?

Anywhere, Audience, World, Yearn

The big catalyst was seeing my sister, when I was 11, doing a dramatic recital. When I saw her on the stage and everyone listening to her so patiently, quietly, that's all I wanted: for someone to look at me and listen to me, but in some beautiful and artistic way.

Beautiful, Dramatic, Listening, Quietly, Saws, Seeing

I had improvised a lot in classes and at the Actors Studio, but I never did it in front of the camera.

Actors, Camera, Cameras, Class, Front

Zero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most.

Authority, Form, Part, Zero

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

Directors, Inspirational, Precious, Thing, Waste

I met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting.

Canada, Firsts, Quiet, Richard

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.

Believe, Confidence, Gives, Giving, Mother

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.

Enjoy, Mother, Sick, Think, Thinking

[Gilda Radner] was in the in vitro fertilization program, and it nearly, nearly drove us apart, too. She wanted that baby, so badly, and it didn't work. Oddly enough, when we were doing "Haunted Honeymoon" in London, she did become pregnant for about 10 days, but then she lost it. But, anyway, my odyssey with Gilda was wonderful, funny, torturous, painful and sad. It was - it went the full gamut.

Baby, Full, London, Lost, Odyssey

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.

Behavior, Children, Derive, Silly, Stupid

But the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me.

Acting, Audience, Process, Real

[Gilda Radner] died in '89, and I got non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2000. I've just passed the five-year mark and I'm now what you call - well, it's called complete remission, but I'm cured. I'm fine.

Fine, Mark, Passed, Remission, Years

I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

Believe, Demon, Demons, Devil, Devils, Names

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