[ 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.

Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.

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

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.

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

As they say in Corsica... Goodbye!

What did you expect? 'Welcome, sonny?' 'Make yourself at home?' 'Marry my daughter?' You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons.