Gene Wilder

“I'm not very funny. I'm funny on camera. In life, I'm not.”

“A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men.”

“Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.”

“What a filthy job. 'Could be worse.' 'How?' 'Could be raining.'”

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”

“So much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it.”

“If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to, do it; want to change the world... there's nothing to it.”

“It's alive! It's alive!”

“Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.”

“If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny.”

“On stage, you can be anything you want to be. In the movies, you're a prisoner of the camera.”

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”

“I wanted to be a stage actor. I never wanted to be a movie star. It happened.”

“To be a good actor, you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules.”

“I'm a Polish-Russian-Jewish-American. My name is Jerome Silberman, and I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.”

“The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.”