Gene Wilder Quotes

It's always gratifying to hear that people are excited by something that you've been excited to make.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

I'd be lying if I said the success means nothing to me. It does. I enjoy it and live a pretty great life.

It's very special to be in something that you genuinely think would be your favorite thing if you weren't in it.

I guess just enjoying what you do and always wanting more of that enjoyment, satisfaction, and putting something together creatively - that gives me a lot of happiness.

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.

I think that success is having fun.

I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

My goal has always been not to look forward to the next thing, but to relish and celebrate the successes I have at the moment. Whether it's landing a part in a student film or having a good day in acting class, I never discredit anything.

I am happy with what I've done.

Success to me does not mean money.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

I'm happy with what I've achieved.

I'd love to win trophies, be in movies, have a body of work I'm proud of and find a way to enjoy it along the way. Success is probably a more of a complicated thing than that.

I had the opportunity to do what I enjoy.

I think I'm prouder of 'The Victim' than anything else, just because, if nothing else, it doesn't look silly, it doesn't look stupid. It holds up. It's fun. A lot of people have enjoyed it, and I'm real happy about it.

What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.

I've never worked on anything that I haven't in some way enjoyed.

I try to focus on what I love doing and if those things, those awards, those accolades, those tickets keep selling and coming like they are doing, I'm going to relish in it and live my life the best way I know how and be grateful.

I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.

The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.