We used to quote Mel Brooks lines when we grew up. He's my biggest hero. — Lee Evans 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
I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety. — Barry Levinson 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
“The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks’s The Producers.” — Michael Wolff 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
I remember seeing Airplane, and even Mel Brooks movies like History of the World Part I, and just really loving that style… — Ashley Tisdale 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 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
Woody Allen stayed so good because he never left New York. Howard Stern stayed so good because he never left New York… — Artie Lange 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
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
With Mel [Brooks], only one time and that was later on during "Young Frankenstein" - never with Zero [Mostel] and never with… — Gene Wilder 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
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
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
They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks. — Andy Van Slyke Copy Share Image
The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he… — Nancy Allen 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
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
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
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
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
Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen won an Emmy and Mel Brooks didn't! Niezsche was right! There is no God! There is no… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
As a kid, I always loved Mel Brooks' stuff - 'The 2,000 Year Old Man' record was something my dad put me onto. — Josh Gondelman Copy Share Image
I grew up on Mel Brooks films. That was film to me until I got a little bit older and realised there… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner are the funniest dudes ever, and they have great careers on their own. They made great art… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
Meeting Mel Brooks was like talking to a drum kit. He talks in rhythm - it's like 'Ba-ba-da, ba-ba-daaa, whoossssh.' 'Endgame' is… — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I was immediately into all the great movie comedians - Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder. Everything those guys had… — Doug Benson 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 to be taught any lessons. [...] I get more letters for Twelve Chairs and Life Stinks than I get from any other movies, because people actually agree with the philosophy…” quote by Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/516/mel-brooks-2308_agree_the-audience-they-see-the-name-mel-brook_114482.jpg)
![“With Mel [Brooks], only one time and that was later on during "Young Frankenstein" - never with Zero [Mostel] and never with Mel except I was writing every day, and then Mel would come to the house and read what I'd written. And then he'd say, yeah, yeah, yeah, OK, yeah, OK. But we need a villain…” quote by Gene Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4f4/gene-wilder-3914_brooks_with-mel-brooks-only-one-time-and-that-w_602487.jpg)
