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
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
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
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
They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks. — Andy Van Slyke 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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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
“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
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
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
I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety. — Barry Levinson 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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)
![“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/i/8c6/gene-wilder-3914_brooks_i-met-mel-brooks-backstage-in-anne-s-ban_2497273.png)
![“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/i/236/gene-wilder-3914_bits_and-mel-brooks-you-have-to-understand-th_2047500.png)
![“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/i/9c9/nick-kroll-8005_brooks_no-doubt-there-are-people-who-are-our-gu_2300184.jpg)
