Lots of things are hard work, ...

Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much more than I do acting only because well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk.
Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much more than I do acting only because well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk.
 Gene Wilder

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
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 John Shelby Spong
I've always had the mentality of: work hard, get to bed early, focus - and let your work speak for itself.
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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