Mel Brooks - Funny Quotes

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Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing.

Mel Brooks

I was in the middle of shooting the last few weeks of Blazing Saddles somewhere in the Antelope Valley, and Gene Wilder and I were having a cup of coffee and he said, I have this idea that there could be another "Frankenstein." I said not another — we've had the son of, the cousin of, the brother-in-law, we don't need another Frankenstein. His idea was very simple: What if the grandson of Dr. Frankenstein wanted nothing to do with the family whatsoever. He was ashamed of those wackos. I said, "That's funny."

Mel Brooks

Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.

Mel Brooks