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Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

~Gene Tierney

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If my mother hadn't laughed at the funny things I did, I probably wouldn't be a comic actor. After she had her first heart attack, the doctor said, 'Try to make her laugh.' And that was the first time I tried to make anyone laugh.

~Gene Wilder

Topics: Actor After Anyone Attack Comic Did Doctor First First Time Funny Funny Things Had Heart Her Laugh Laughed Make Mother Said She Things Time Tried Try I Tried

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I'm an actor, not a clown.

~Gene Wilder

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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 didn't want to be a comedian. I wanted to be an actor - maybe a comic actor, but a real actor - by real, I mean not a comedian. I wanted to be an actor.

~Gene Wilder

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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

Topics: Actor Behavior Child Childish Comic Comics Derive Doing Force Great Lot Main Most Say Silly Silly Things Things Would You

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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

Topics: About Actor Being Could Dance Fall Joke Love Loved Missed Really Sing Take Then Trap Were Who

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We all grew up on movies with scenes where the actor is lying, and you know he's lying, but he wants to make sure you know it's a lie, and so he overacts and all but winks at you, and everybody in the world except for the girl he's talking to knows he's lying.

~Gene Wilder

Topics: Actor Everybody Except Girl Grew He Know Knows Lie Lying Make Movies Scenes Sure Talking Up Wants Where World You

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No doubt, my role in 'Urumi' has been one of my best so far. It surprised me as an actor and made me more confident.

~Genelia D'Souza

Topics: Actor Been Best Confident Doubt Far Made Me More No Doubt Role Surprised

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I'm living the dream! I just want to tell actors and writers it's never too late, and it can happen when you least expect it.

~Geneva Carr

Topics: Actor Dream Expect Happen Just Late Least Living Never Never Too Late Tell Too Too Late Want Writers You

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