I'm a working-class former apprentice electrician; at the age of 14, if you'd told me I would one day be standing on… — John Gordon Sinclair Copy Share Image
The audience. They see the name Mel Brooks, they want something really funny. They don't want to be moved; they don't want… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks. — Andy Van Slyke Copy Share Image
I've always looked up to Amy Poehler and, obviously, people like Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell, Mel Brooks, and the 'Monty Python' guys. — Andy Samberg Copy Share Image
Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
I also try to surround myself with people I love - make a family out of the company. So I tend to… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it. — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I personally find it difficult to accept that there could be anyone on earth insensitive to the comic abilities of Laurel and… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
“The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks’s The Producers.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
I think that all the Mel Brooks' company of actors is just tremendous. It was a crazy group of genius people. All… — Brett Gelman Copy Share Image
Mel Brooks and David Zucker - there are very few people who know silly, and they're usually hugely intelligent, because you have… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch. — Shawn Wayans Copy Share Image
My movies were not reaping the kind of emotional rewards that I wanted. I wanted them to be appreciated and they weren't.… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
My parents took me to that I think is just one of those near-perfect comedies is Young Frankenstein. Gene Wilder and Mel… — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
I first got involved with Mel Brooks through 'The Elephant Man.' Everybody knows now, but they didn't know at the time that… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
I am a huge Mel Brooks fan. And I do think that not seeing his canon of classics is a bit criminal… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
Because of my comedic-influence growing up, Mel Brooks, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin… A lot of Jeff comedic-influences included Charlie Chaplin and physical… — J. Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
Mel Brooks is one of the few authentic geniuses working in comedy in America today. — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Id like to acknowledge three people who early on knew Mel Brooks was one of the funniest people in the world: Sid… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
Gene Wilder made his movie debut in "Bonnie And Clyde," starred in the Mel Brooks films "The Producers," "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
The person who should really write an appreciation of the late great Dom DeLuise is Burt Reynolds, who, even more than Mel… — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety. — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
The hardest I've ever laughed in a cinema was at 'Silent Movie' by Mel Brooks. I was 12-ish and I actually fell… — Sean Lock Copy Share Image
I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
