'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

Rather than the strength it takes to not lose, it's the strength to stand back up after a loss that is sometimes more valuable.

A woman never thoroughly cares for herlover until he has ceased to care for her

I love musicals and music driven films, and my first instinct is to tell the story. And when music is a big part of the action I can literally make the story sing!

Care about your customers more than about yourself, and you'll do well.

Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. To a friend hesitant with respect to infinitesimals.

I'm still doing me. I try to come up with different concept for my shows, you gotta keep the people interested, but I'm still me.

My message is not wholly understood; only poets understand it.

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

Friends you have, people you love, die and are born again.

Ask for 100% of what you want 100% of the time.