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Gene Wilder _ Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My
What I didn't know was that I don't need to act. I might want to act-just for the love of acting-but not because I need to earn the right to feel loved by God. I've got something much better. . . . I feel loved by the person I love.
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Gene Wilder _ Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My
After ten months of no diagnoses or incorrect diagnoses-with her tummy distended as if she were hiding a small balloon under her dress-she finally heard it: "You have stage four ovarian cancer." Gilda grabbed my face in her hands and sobbed, "No more bad news, no more bad news. I don't want any more bad news.
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Gene Wilder _ Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My
The pictures in the magazines almost put me off my job completely. I've always hated those color photographs of naked women in those stupid positions that are supposed to turn men on. I never felt that there was anything sexy about them.
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Gene Wilder _ Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My
When the sun finally went down, the cameras started rolling, and I started running around the edge of the Lincoln Center fountain, shouting for all I was worth, "I want everything I've ever seen in the movies!" And the fountain was turned on, in the film and in my life.
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Gene Wilder _ Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My
Making Young Frankenstein was the happiest I'd ever been on a film.
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Gene Wilder _ Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My
Struggling to be a genius is endemic to young artists who are starting their careers, but after being bloodied a few times, they just hope that they won't be ridiculed in the press or on television by those few who have the power to coronate them or tear them down.
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Gene Wilder _ Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My
After I had my drink with them and said good night to James Baldwin and was kissed by Simone Signoret on both cheeks, I went outside, walked close to my car, and threw up on the street. It wasn't about the food. I may act brave and sometimes outrageous-on screen-but in real life I get terribly nervous when I meet the great talents whom I've admired for years from afar.
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Gene Wilder _ Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My
I held my father's hand on the ride home that night. After about half an hour of cheerful bantering back and forth, he got quiet. Then he said, "I always told you not to put all your eggs in one basket. Since you were a little boy, I warned you not to put all your eggs in one basket. Now I'm glad you did." What I didn't have the heart to tell him was that Start the Revolution Without Me and Quackser Fortune had both failed at the box office, and if Willy Wonka also failed, I didn't know where my next job would come from, or even if there would be a next job.
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Gene Wilder _ Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My
If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it. . . . Just be real, and it will be funnier.
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Gene Wilder _ Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My
When I make my first entrance, I'd like to come out of the door carrying a cane and then walk towards the crowd with a limp. After the crowd sees that Willy Wonka is a cripple, they all whisper to themselves and then become deathly quiet. As I walk towards them, my cane sinks into one of the cobblestones I'm walking on and stands straight up, by itself . . . but I keep on walking, until I realize that I no longer have my cane. I start to fall forward, and just before I hit the ground, I do a beautiful forward somersault and bounce back up, to great applause." ". . . Why do you want to do that?" "Because from that time on, no one will know if I'm lying or telling the truth.
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Gene Wilder _ Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My
I'm not a disciplinarian. I understand the need for discipline, of course, but I'm just not good at it. I'm not talking about hitting-I don't think any parent should ever hit a child-but about setting the rules and sticking by them. How to punish without taking away love-that's the great art. I wished that I could do it, but I was trapped by the most ironic dichotomy: I was afraid that if I set rules and drew lines and enforced discipline, Katie would take her love away from me.
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Gene Wilder _ Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My
When we saw the ascension scene-where I rise with the Creature on an elevated platform and cry, "LIFE, DO YOU HEAR ME? GIVE MY CREATION LIFE!," my heart sank. I thought this was going to be one of the highlights of the film, and instead it was a boring blob. I put my head down. Mel didn't vomit. Instead, he got up and started banging his head against the wall. He hit it three times, hard. Then turned his face to the rest of us and said, "Let's not get excited! You have just witnessed a 14-minute disaster. In one week you're going to see a 12-minute fairly rotten scene. In two weeks you're going to see a 10-minute fairly good scene. And in three weeks, you are going to see an 8-minute masterpiece.
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