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When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.

~Gene Wilder

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

~Gene Wilder

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

~Gene Wilder

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

~Gene Wilder

Topics: Funny Know Laugh Make Right Right Track Track Wife Write I Can I Write

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

~Gene Wilder

Topics: Camera Funny Life Once Sometimes While

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What do actors really want? To be great actors? Yes, but you can't buy talent, so it's best to leave the word 'great' out of it. I think to be believed, onstage or onscreen, is the one hope that all actors share.

~Gene Wilder

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I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.

~Gene Wilder

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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.

~Gene Wilder

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I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have another 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

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: June 11th, 1933

Died: August 29th, 2016

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