When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.She made me believe that I could make someone laugh.

And in 'Frisco Kid' and in 'The Woman in Red' I had to ride badly. Then you have to really ride well in order to ride badly.

For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!

I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well.

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

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 offered him quite a bit of money to direct "Young Frankenstein," and he took it.

If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?