A Quote by Martin Short

Ill give you an idea of how Jewish Mel Brooks is: Thats a nose job.

Martin Short

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Martin Short
American - Actor
Born: March 26, 1950

Id like to acknowledge three people who early on knew Mel Brooks was one of the funniest people in the world: Sid Caesar, me, and Mel Brooks.

Carl Reiner

I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a connoisseur of New York Jewish humor.

Gene Wilder

They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.

Andy Van Slyke

When people, especially from France, would ask me to talk about or so they could write about New York Jewish humor, I'd say I don't know anything about New York Jewish humor. I know who Zero Mostel was and I know Mel Brooks, but that's about all I could tell you about New York Jewish humor.

Gene Wilder

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.

Gene Wilder

I mean I would still love to be in Mel Brooks' movies; he's great.

Armie Hammer

I was immediately into all the great movie comedians - Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder. Everything those guys had anything to do with, from I don't know how young. Super young.

Doug Benson

When I was younger, I used to look at movie stars with pencil-thin noses and think about a nose job. I've got a grown-up baby nose; it's not chiseled and structured. Then I saw how beautiful Audrey Tatou was in 'Amelie' and thought, 'She's got a nose like mine, and if she can have a baby nose, so can I.'

Martine McCutcheon

Mel Brooks is one of the few authentic geniuses working in comedy in America today.

Gene Wilder

What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it.

Gene Wilder

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

Barry Levinson

I am a huge Mel Brooks fan. And I do think that not seeing his canon of classics is a bit criminal or clueless.

Lisa Lutz

We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch.

Shawn Wayans

In high school, I started saving up to get a nose job, which is so ridiculous. I had this job at Tim Hortons, and I was trying to save up $10,000 for a nose job.