Gene Wilder Quotes
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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I love improvising.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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I think you're attracted to things that are different from yourself in a character because it's more interesting, and you get to play out a fantasy version of yourself.
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I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
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To tell you the Truth: It's better to give rather than to receive.
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
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The controls were anything but a hunch-player’s delight in a Universe composed of one-trillionth part matter to one decillion parts black velvet futility.
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I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.
