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.

I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

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.

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

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.

Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.