I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor.

I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

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.

For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!

Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded.

Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.