I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety. — Barry Levinson 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
We used to quote Mel Brooks lines when we grew up. He's my biggest hero. — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
Mel Brooks is one of the few authentic geniuses working in comedy in America today. — Gene Wilder 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
“The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks’s The Producers.” — Michael Wolff 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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
Mel Brooks came to see Oh, Hello in L.A. Mulaney and I had a meeting with him, and we invited him to… — Nick Kroll 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
They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks. — Andy Van Slyke 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
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
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
[ 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
![“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/i/4f4/gene-wilder-3914_brooks_with-mel-brooks-only-one-time-and-that-w_602487.jpg)
![“[ 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/i/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/i/ffd/gene-wilder-3914_brooks_i-was-miscast-in-that-production-of-moth_2851071.png)
