Gene Wilder movie quotes

“- Ransom: What's your connection with Janet Dunn?
- Michael Jordon: She's my brother.”
Richard Widmark - Ransom
Gene Wilder - Michael Jordon

“You have to remember that a worm... with very few exceptions... is not a human being.”

Gene Wilder - Dr. Frederick Frankenstein

“If science teaches us anything, it teaches us to accept our failures, as well as our successes, with quiet dignity and grace.
[starts beating up the creature]
Son of a bitch! Bastard! I'll get you for this! What did you do to me? What did you do to me.”

Gene Wilder - Dr. Frederick Frankenstein

“- George: I want to know everything about you and I'd like you to know all about me, too. Because we might just find out that we have a heck of a lot in common.
- Elaine: What? What? What could we have in common?
- George: Basil! I love basil. You like basil, Elaine?
- Elaine: It doesn't sweep me off my feet.”
Gene Wilder - George
Mercedes Ruehl - Elaine

“Don't you judge people by their appearance.”
Gene Wilder - Avram

“- Mrs. Teevee: Loompaland? There's no such place.
- Willy Wonka: Excuse me, dear lady, but...
- Mrs. Teevee: Mr. Wonka, I am a teacher of geography.
- Willy Wonka: Oh, well, then you know all about it and what a terrible country it is.”
Nora Denney - Mrs. Teevee
Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka

“- Bart: A man drink like that and he don't eat, he is going to die.
- Jim: [eagerly] When?”

Cleavon Little - Bart
Gene Wilder - Jim

“- George: Be kind to your web-footed friends, for a duck maybe somebody's mother...
- Eddie Dash: Would you knock it off with the web-footed friends shit?”
Gene Wilder - George
Richard Pryor - Eddie Dash

“- Bart: Well, Jim, since you are my guest and I am your host, what's your pleasure? What do you like to do?
- Jim: Oh, I don't know. Play chess... screw...
- Bart: [quickly] Well, let's play chess.”
Cleavon Little - Bart
Gene Wilder - Jim

- Skip Donahue: This filthy, roach-ridden reality is inspiring... what did that second policeman say to you when he grabbed you by the throat?
- Harry Monroe: "Man, I don't fucking believe you!".
- Skip Donahue: "Man, I don't fucking believe you!". Fabulous!
Gene Wilder - Skip Donahue
Richard Pryor - Harry Monroe

“- Dave: You swear an awful lot.
- Wally: You're fucking-A right!”
Gene Wilder - Dave
Richard Pryor - Wally

“- Tommy: You did it, didn't you? You give 'em back the money?
- Avram: Yep!
- Tommy: Yep. Well, that ain't the American way. What's more, now you ain't got no money. Well, now what'cha gonna do?”

Harrison Ford - Tommy
Gene Wilder - Avram

“- Avram: Tommy, I'm not a rabbi.
- Tommy: Don't say that! You are a rabbi. I'm a bank robber. I'm a card player and a whoremonger. That's what I am. You are a rabbi. You can fall in the mud, you can slip on your ass, you can travel in the wrong direction. But even on your ass, even in the mud, even if you go in the wrong direction for a little...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gene Wilder - Avram
Harrison Ford - Tommy

“Elaine, I am not your husband. I am... a Volvo Salesman.”
Gene Wilder - George

“- Waiter: He hates the coffee!
- Duffy Bergman: No, the coughing! I hate all the coughing!”
Justin Ross - Waiter
Gene Wilder - Duffy Bergman

“If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to, do it; want to change the world... there's nothing to it.”
Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka

“- Willy Wonka: [making a mysterious formula] Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.
- Mrs. Teevee: That's 105%!”
Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka
Nora Denney - Mrs. Teevee

“- Harry Monroe: Tell me about the job opportunity.
- Skip Donahue: It's in banking.
- Harry Monroe: I don't know a darn thing about banking.
- Skip Donahue: We don't have to know anything about banking. I've sold the manager on a new promotion idea.”
Richard Pryor - Harry Monroe
Gene Wilder - Skip Donahue

“- Skip Donahue: You want to know something that's always fascinated me? Are the prison romances that sometimes spring up between inmates and girls from the outside. Sometimes quite beautiful girls. I mean, would you, for example... could you actually become involved, I mean, romantically, with a prisoner?
- Meredith: Absolutely not.
- Skip...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gene Wilder - Skip Donahue
JoBeth Williams - Meredith

“- Tommy: What do you call this in Jewish?
- Avram: A tuchas.
- Tommy: Well, you keep your eyes on this took-iss, and don't take them off 'till I tell you!”

Harrison Ford - Tommy
Gene Wilder - Avram

“- Teddy Pierce: Buddy, are you sure this style suits me?
- Buddy: You want to look good at funerals?
- Teddy Pierce: No, no. I'm just sayin', I wanna look nice, that's all.
- Buddy: Let me see. Put your arms down. Now you're cooking with Crisco!”

Gene Wilder - Teddy Pierce
Charles Grodin - Buddy

“- Charlotte: How old is that suit?
- Teddy Pierce: This? I don't know. Six. Seven. Eight years, maybe.
- Charlotte: It looks it.”
Kelly LeBrock - Charlotte
Gene Wilder - Teddy Pierce

“I want to get out of this place! Let's go some place! We can just head out west. We could grab odd jobs along the way. Build up a wonderful little nest egg. And then head for Hollywood! That's the place for you and me! Picture it, Harry. Harry and Skip in the Sunbelt. Out there, in the Sunbelt, you just smile and they pour money out on you. And...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gene Wilder - Skip Donahue

- Skip Donahue: My name is Skip Donahue. I'm a playwright and I saw you do a scene from "Romeo and Juliet" at the Wilson Workshop. I want you to know that you were wonderful. I'm not just saying it to be kind. You were really lovely.
- Susan: If you don't get out of my way, I'm going to kick you in the nuts!
- Skip Donahue: Kick! In the nuts!... (continue)(continue reading)
Gene Wilder - Skip Donahue
Lee Purcell - Susan

Then one day, I was just walking down the street when I heard a voice behind me say, "reach for it, mister"! I spun around... and there I was, face to face with a six-year old kid. Well, I just threw my guns down and walked away. Little bastard shot me in the ass. So I limped to the nearest saloon, crawled inside a whiskey bottle... and I've... (continue)(continue reading)
Gene Wilder - Jim