“I'm not so funny. Gilda was funny. I'm funny on camera sometimes. In l...” — Gene Wilder Quote

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.

I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.

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.

Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.

It's important to slow down, every now and then, for no other reason than to call someone to say 'Hi.' It doesn't have to be a long conversation. Just calling out of the blue does more to let someone know you still care about them than nearly anything else.

If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for anything else.

Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.

And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.