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
Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do… — Clara Mamet Copy Share Image
[ Zero Mostel] would tell anyone anything, not to be impolite, but he'd show that he wasn't at all afraid of however… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I was miscast in that production [of Mother Courage and Her Children] ... but it was with Anne Bancroft, whose boyfriend at… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Silence in the turmoil of the theater world made me survive 50 years without speaking on a stage, only to say 'No'… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
I remember reading Dave Barry for the first time and being like oh my God I can't believe you can do this.… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
I used to like watching the Carol Burnett Show. I thought Carol Burnett was very funny. And I liked Madeline Kahn a… — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
I was always a big fan of Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner's '2000-Year-Old Man' sketch. I think it's one of the biggest… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals,… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
When people, especially from France, would ask me to talk about or so they could write about New York Jewish humor, I'd… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
And Mel [Brooks] - you have to understand this important point - he had done "The Producers" for $50,000 over two years,… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
“The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks’s The Producers. In that classic, Brooks’s larcenous and… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“I turn on my computer to search Craigslist for apartment listings. The wireless window pops up, and I realize with some regret… — Jonathan Goldstein Copy Share Image
All comedy does that. Every comedian I can think of - Larry David, Seinfeld, Mel Brooks, Chris Rock - that's where the… — Bryan Fogel Copy Share Image
I met Mel [Brooks] backstage in Anne's [Bancroft] dressing room. He was wearing one of those pea coats, pea jackets that were… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
No doubt there are people who are our guests [ in Oh, Hello] who are more famous, but to me, Mel Brooks… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
![“[ Zero Mostel] would tell anyone anything, not to be impolite, but he'd show that he wasn't at all afraid of however much money that person [had] or whatever title they had in a company. It didn't scare him. Mel [Brooks] was very much the same way.” quote by Gene Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4d0/gene-wilder-3914_brooks_zero-mostel-would-tell-anyone-anything-n_2656684.jpg)
![“I was miscast in that production [of Mother Courage and Her Children] ... but it was with Anne Bancroft, whose boyfriend at the time was Mel Brooks, and that made my - I can't say my day, it made my life, in a way.” quote by Gene Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ffd/gene-wilder-3914_brooks_i-was-miscast-in-that-production-of-moth_2851071.jpg)
![“And Mel [Brooks] - you have to understand this important point - he had done "The Producers" for $50,000 over two years, and he didn't make a penny from it. And then he did "The Twelve Chairs" - $50,000 for two more years and didn't make a penny from it. That's four years of work. And then they…” quote by Gene Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/236/gene-wilder-3914_bits_and-mel-brooks-you-have-to-understand-th_2047500.jpg)
![“I met Mel [Brooks] backstage in Anne's [Bancroft] dressing room. He was wearing one of those pea coats, pea jackets that were made famous by the Merchant Marines, and I admired it and he said, "You know, they used to call this a urine jacket, but it didn't sell."” quote by Gene Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8c6/gene-wilder-3914_brooks_i-met-mel-brooks-backstage-in-anne-s-ban_2497273.jpg)
![“No doubt there are people who are our guests [ in Oh, Hello] who are more famous, but to me, Mel Brooks is the most famous person. So that was really cool.” quote by Nick Kroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c9/nick-kroll-8005_brooks_no-doubt-there-are-people-who-are-our-gu_2300184.jpg)