All about Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business

by Mel Brooks

“You’ll never get it made. This is too crazy, too wild. And besides, we’re too close to what’s happened. The world isn’t ready for a comedy featuring Adolf Hitler. Maybe in ten years.”

Waco Kid: What did you expect? “Welcome, sonny”? “Make yourself at home.” “Marry my daughter”? You’ve got to remember these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know…Morons.

Hedley Lamarr: Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade…to stamp out runaway decency in the West. Now you will only be risking your lives…whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination…for Best Supporting Actor.

“I have this idea for a movie about Baron Frankenstein’s grandson. He’s an uptight scientist who doesn’t believe any of that nonsense about bringing the dead back to life. Even though he is clinically a scientist, he is as crazy as any Frankenstein. It’s in his heart. It’s in his blood. It’s in the marrow of his bones…only he doesn’t know it yet.”