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Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.

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Gene Wilder
Age: 83 †
Born: 1933
Born: June 11
Died: 2016
Died: August 29
Actor
Comedian
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Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Writer
Milwaukee City
Wisconsin
Jerome Silberman
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I met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting.
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My agent at the time, Mike Medavoy, before he became a movie mogul, called me up and said, how about a movie with you and Peter Boyle and Marty Feldman? And I said, well, what makes you think of that? He said because I now handle you and Peter Marty.
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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.
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My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.
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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.
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Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.
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To match the shoes with the jacket is fey. To match the shoes with the hat is taste.
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I was miscast in that production [of Mother Courage and Her Children] ... but it was with Anne Bancroft, whose boyfriend at the time was Mel Brooks, and that made my - I can't say my day, it made my life, in a way.
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We gave each other a hug, [Richard Pryor] said how much he admired me, I said how much I admired him, and we started working the next morning, and we hit it off really well, and he taught me how to improvise on camera.
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Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?
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As they say in Corsica... Goodbye!
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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
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On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.
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When people, especially from France, would ask me to talk about or so they could write about New York Jewish humor, I'd say I don't know anything about New York Jewish humor. I know who Zero Mostel was and I know Mel Brooks, but that's about all I could tell you about New York Jewish humor.
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Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?
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For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!
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So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.
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I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor.
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