Beloved Actor Gene Wilder Dead At Age 83, 17 Of His Greatest Quotes

“If you want to view paradise, take a look around and view it. Anything you want to; do it. You can change the world; there's nothing to it.”

— Gene Wilder, amazon.com

“The suspense is terrible I hope it'll last.”

— Gene Wilder, amazon.com

“We have so much time and so little to see. Wait. Strike that. Reverse it.”

— Gene Wilder, amazon.com

“Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.”

— Gene Wilder, amazon.com

“That's all I wanted: for someone to look at me and listen to me, but in some beautiful and artistic way.”

— Gene Wilder, newsweek.com

“You're fooled by the applause into thinking that they love me, they really, really love me. Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do.”

— Gene Wilder, amazon.com

“Time is a precious thing never waste it.”

— Gene Wilder, amazon.com

“Just be real and it will be funnier”

— Gene Wilder, amazon.com

“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.”

— Gene Wilder, amazon.com

“If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?”

— Gene Wilder, britishfilminstitute.tumblr.com

“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.”

— Gene Wilder, newsweek.com

“Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.”

— Gene Wilder, amazon.com

“Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching.”

— Gene Wilder, amazon.com

“I think to be believed, onstage or on screen, is the one hope that all actors share.”

— Gene Wilder, nytimes.com

“You're fooled by the applause into thinking that they love me, they really, really love me. Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do.”

— Gene Wilder, newsweek.com

“That's all I wanted: for someone to look at me and listen to me, but in some beautiful and artistic way.”

— Gene Wilder, newsweek.com

“I wasn’t broke; I was in love— for the first time in my life—”

— Gene Wilder, amazon.com