"I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle."

“Some things definitely work better on film than in books. Introspection is great in books but it doesn't work on film. Anything with high intensity, whether it's a love scene, a car chase, a fight scene - those things work so well on film and oftentimes they can tell a much broader part of the story.”

“For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.”

“Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.”

“To match the shoes with the jacket is fey. To match the shoes with the hat is taste.”

Source : "Gene Wilder: a comic enigma whose genius shone brightest in collaboration" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2016.

“Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.”

“I believe there is a champion in all of us.”

Source : Frank Shamrock, Charles Fleming, Mickey Rourke (2012). “Uncaged: My Life as a Champion MMA Fighter”, p.10, Chicago Review Press

“Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.”

Source : "A Calendar of Wisdom" by Leo Tolstoy, translated by P. Sekirin, (November 26), 1997.

“If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.”