Gene Wilder movie quotes

“- Larry Abbot: I'm telling you, I felt a cold, dead body lying beside me in bed. Do you understand?
- Pfister: I feel that every night. Warm brandy helps.”
Gene Wilder - Larry Abbot
Bryan Pringle - Pfister

“There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.”
Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka

“- Buddy: Is it from Theresa?
- Joey: Found a picture of me with another woman.
- Teddy Pierce: Naked?”
Charles Grodin - Buddy
Joseph Bologna - Joey
Gene Wilder - Teddy Pierce

“- Elaine: What on earth have you got in that foolish-looking little bag?
- George: My raincoat and rubbers.”
Mercedes Ruehl - Elaine
Gene Wilder - George

“- Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: For the experiment to be a success, all of the body parts must be enlarged.
- Inga: His veins, his feet, his hands, his organs vould all have to be increased in size.
- Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Precisely.
- Inga: [her eyes get wide] He vould have an enormous schwanzschtücker.
- Dr. Frederick Frankenstein:...” (continue)(continue reading)

Gene Wilder - Dr. Frederick Frankenstein
Teri Garr - Inga
Marty Feldman - Igor

“- Michael Jordon: Where do you wanna go, honey?
- Janet Dunn: Uh...
- Michael Jordon: To your place or to mine?
- Janet Dunn: I don't care. Let's just go.
- Michael Jordon: Just go straight up Park Avenue, all right? We'll tell you exactly where once we finish negotiating.”
Gene Wilder - Michael Jordon
Kathleen Quinlan - Janet Dunn

“- Avram: ...In that case, would you like to fight for that last fish?
- Tommy: You think you got a chance?
- Avram: I think I can say with complete confidence... none, whatsoever. But I'm still hungry.
- Tommy: Help yourself.”
Gene Wilder - Avram
Harrison Ford - Tommy

“- Skip Donahue: I should have told you in your office! My mother was a veterinarian! I can't have anything to do with the exploitation of animals, she'd turn over in her grave!
- Warden Walter Beatty: I don't believe you heard me correctly. This is very important to me!
- Skip Donahue: Important to you? My mother is watching over every step I...” (continue)(continue reading)

Gene Wilder - Skip Donahue
Barry Corbin - Warden Walter Beatty

“- Mrs. Gloop: What a disgusting, dirty river!
- Mr. Salt: Industrial waste, that. You've ruined your watershed Wonka: it's polluted.
- Willy Wonka: It's chocolate.”
Ursula Reit - Mrs. Gloop
Roy Kinnear - Mr. Salt
Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka

“- Mrs. Gloop: He's gone! He'll be made into marshmallows in five seconds.
- Willy Wonka: Impossible, my dear lady! That's absurd! Unthinkable!
- Mrs. Gloop: Why?
- Willy Wonka: Because that pipe doesn't go to the marshmallow room, it goes to the fudge room!”

Ursula Reit - Mrs. Gloop
Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka

“- Kate Hellman: Not bad, huh?
- Michael Jordon: What?
- Kate Hellman: Not bad, huh?
- Michael Jordon: You want compliments now?”

Gilda Radner - Kate Hellman
Gene Wilder - Michael Jordon

“- Skip Donahue: I know that you're not wearing anything underneath that coat.
- Susan: What?
- Skip Donahue: I also know that you're a shoplifter, part-time.
- Susan: What are you? Some kind of a looney tune?
- Skip Donahue: No. I'm the store detective, here, part-time.”
Gene Wilder - Skip Donahue
Lee Purcell - Susan

“- Jim: Look at my hand.
[raises hand and holds it level]
- Bart: Steady as a rock.
- Jim: [raises his other hand, which is violently trembling] Yeah, but I shoot with this one.”
Gene Wilder - Jim
Cleavon Little - Bart

“- Dave: Don't we get a last request?
- Eve: What would you like?
- Dave: Would you scratch my nose for me?”
Gene Wilder - Dave
Joan Severance - Eve

Don't ever call my friend a "shithead" again, ok?

Gene Wilder - George

“- Inga: You haven't even touched your food.
[Dr. Frederick Frankenstein explodes and slaps on his food]
- Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: There. Now I've touched it. Happy?”
Teri Garr - Inga
Gene Wilder - Dr. Frederick Frankenstein

“- Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Well this explains the music.
- Igor: It's still warm.”

Gene Wilder - Dr. Frederick Frankenstein
Marty Feldman - Igor

“- Charlotte: It's a water bed.
- Teddy Pierce: This should be funny.
- Charlotte: Wait a minute, you've come to bed with your shoes and socks.
- Teddy Pierce: Oh, sorry.”
Kelly LeBrock - Charlotte
Gene Wilder - Teddy Pierce

“- Avram: We are doing this to keep warm, aren't we?
- Tommy: Uh-huh.
- Avram: In that case, you can put your arms around me.
- Tommy: Come here, darling.”

Gene Wilder - Avram
Harrison Ford - Tommy

“- Wally: These streets are bumpy.
- Dave: You're driving on the sidewalk!”

Richard Pryor - Wally
Gene Wilder - Dave

“- Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: What a filthy job.
- Igor: Could be worse.
- Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: How?
- Igor: Could be raining.
[it starts to pour]”

Gene Wilder - Dr. Frederick Frankenstein
Marty Feldman - Igor

“- Chief Gray Cloud: What does he do?
- Avram: He... He can do anything!
- Chief Gray Cloud: Then why can't he make rain?
- Avram: Because he doesn't make rain. He gives us strength when we're suffering. He gives us compassion when all that we feel is hatred. He gives us courage when we're searching around blindly like little mice in the...” (continue)(continue reading)

Val Bisoglio - Chief Gray Cloud
Gene Wilder - Avram

“I'm going to win you over, Elaine. You'll see. I'm going to romance you and I'll wine you and I'll dine you and one day you're going to feel about me, the way I feel about you.”
Gene Wilder - George

“- Bart: What's your name?
- Jim: Well, my name is Jim, but most people call me... Jim.”
Cleavon Little - Bart
Gene Wilder - Jim

“- Therapist: George, we have a nice man coming by to take you to the theater, the musuem, help you re-introduce yourself to the world. Are you ready for that, George?
- George: I don't know.
- Therapist: What did you tell me the other day? You said, I'm a ready teddy Yo! What did you say yesterday?
- George: I'm a ready teddy yo.”
Peter Michael Goetz - Therapist
Gene Wilder - George