I wanted to be an actor. ...

I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That\'s what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn\'t funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.
I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.
 Gene Wilder

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When you please your mother by doing something, it gives you confidence that you can please other people.
 Gene Wilder
I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's. I didn't think I had the right.
 Gene Wilder
When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.She made me believe that I could make someone laugh.
 Gene Wilder
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.
 Gene Wilder
I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but to prevent me from enjoying my own life.
 Gene Wilder