If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier

Zero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most.

I met [Gilda Radner] on the first night of filming ... Hanky Panky that Sidney Poitier was directing. And it's funny, I was in costume and makeup - my tuxedo and makeup because I'd done a few shots before she arrived, and she told me later that she cried all the way in, in the car, because she knew that she was going to fall in love with me and want to get married.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?

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 or we need whatever it was.

I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.

As they say in Corsica... Goodbye!