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.

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

As they say in Corsica... Goodbye!

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.

So shines a good deed... in a weary world.

If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!

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

The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.

On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.

I've thought about going back to school.

A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.

I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

What we really need, after all, is not to defend the Bible but to understand it.

Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.