Top 100 Mel Quotes
#1. Mel: What was your name again? Rain: Rain. Mel: Oh that's nice. Kind of like bad weather.
Kristen Schaal
#2. Mel," I began, staring down, "there's something I have to tell you."
"I'm listening, babe."
"I kissed Henry when we were camping."
Well, it was a six-hour kiss, but who's counting?
Ophelia London
#3. I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that.'
Jerry Reed
#4. Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him.
Monica Bellucci
#5. Don't worry, Mel. Miracles don't work that way. I'll never lose you. I'll never let you get away from me.
Stephenie Meyer
#6. Stoners just got a powerful new ally in the fight to legalize marijuana - conservative broadcaster Pat Robertson. He said it's time to 'you know, legalize it, tax it, and keep it away from Mel Gibson.'
Craig Ferguson
#7. Honey, I have a feeling he doesn't think of you as a friend. Have you seen the way he looks at you?"
She glanced at him and as if he could feel her gaze, he turned his eyes on her. Soft and hard all at once. "Yeah," Mel said. "He promised to stop doing that.
Robyn Carr
#8. Unless she got Mel and Slade back together in the next twenty-four hours, the human race would be enslaved forever and Kara would never see a television set again. No, no, no, no, no.
Cassandra Gannon
#9. I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.
Billy West
#10. Bay nodded. "I guess he's not going to know if I don't really say what's on my mind." Mel's eyes danced with laughter. "I think that's the thing with most men and women. They need to be told.
Carrie Ann Ryan
#11. A casting director who'd cast me in 'Assassins' sent a video to Kevin Reynolds, the director, and Mel Gibson, whose company is producing '187.' Then I went in and auditioned, and a few hours later, they called me.
Kelly Rowan
#12. I'm a working-class former apprentice electrician; at the age of 14, if you'd told me I would one day be standing on a stage with Mel Brooks, I'd have thought you were off your head. But these things can happen.
John Gordon Sinclair
#13. Do you know the only way you can tell for sure the deer are there?" Mel shook his head. "By the wolves," he said.
Connie Willis
#14. Mel Alexenberg offers a scintillating experiment in creativity. His work is an invitation to deepen your spiritual sensibilities as you extend your imagination.
Jan Phillips
#15. AMEL (A'MEL) n.s.[email, Fr.]The matter with which the variegated works are overlaid, which we call enamelled. The materials of glass melted with calcined tin, compose an undiaphanous body. This white amel is the basis of all those fine concretes that goldsmiths and artificers
Samuel Johnson
#16. Though we were curfew-free- I'd told Mom I was spending the night at Mel's after our double date, and Mel had told Mrs. Warren that she'd be home "whenever my happy ass walks through the door"- I was nervous about tonight.
Kresley Cole
#17. Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.
Geri Halliwell
#18. Mel Gibson was lovely. He was on the edge of both scenes that I had with Danny Glover.
Tom Atkins
#19. Hey, no cracks about the leather if you want my help," he said. "Oh my god, it's like I have the Fonz for a brother," Angie said to Mel. Mel
Jenn McKinlay
#20. Mel's Diner in L.A. - they are my favorite hamburgers. I could eat there every day. They are ridiculous.
Liam Hemsworth
#21. They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.
Andy Van Slyke
#23. That's right,' Mel said. 'Some vassal would come along and spear the bastard in the name of love. Or whatever the fuck it was they fought over in those days.'
Same things we fight over these days,' Terri said.
Laura said, 'Nothing's changed.
Raymond Carver
#24. Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen won an Emmy and Mel Brooks didn't! Niezsche was right! There is no God! There is no God!
Mel Brooks
#25. I remember as a kid watching TV and seeing Mel Blanc doing his voices and Paul Winchell doing his ventriloquism and thinking, 'Those guys are having a good time. I want to do that.'
Jim Cummings
#26. Father, I'd rather die at your hands than at Liam's ... or worse, Mel's. Give me one second to tell you and then I will run faster than Forrest Gump.
J.J. McAvoy
#27. Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.
Barry Levinson
#28. Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig.
Nicolas Cage
#29. People are arguing whether Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" is anti-semitic. Well, whether it is or it isn't, it doesn't matter, because I've been in touch with his accounting firm, Rosencrantz, Levy and Stern, and they're screwing him out of his profits.
Joan Rivers
#30. I always used to sit next to Mel Blanc when we'd do the shows. When you have Jack Benny on one side and Mel Blanc on the other, you're not going to go far wrong.
Harry Shearer
#31. I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
Barry Levinson
#32. Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
J. B. Smoove
#33. Your life is the people who fill it," Mel says. "And nothing's good without them.
Kayla Rae Whitaker
#34. Mel Blanc has been gone for 30 years, even though he's still around.
John Kricfalusi
#35. I was trained completely by ear. And it was actually diving into the Bach that led me to get - there was like a Mel Bay "Teach Yourself How To Sight Read ... "
Chris Thile
#36. He seems like a good guy, but we need to focus on finding Nia's killer, and then finish the theater. We don't have time for distractions. No men."
"Yeah, yeah, I know." Mel rolled her eyes.
"Inspiration before intercourse."
Callie chuckled. "I should put that on a T-shirt.
Lisa Kessler
#37. My movies were not reaping the kind of emotional rewards that I wanted. I wanted them to be appreciated and they weren't. I didn't want the reviews to say, "Mel Brooks has made another movie," and you get the title somewhere in the second paragraph.
Mel Brooks
#38. What actor wouldn't want to work with Mel Gibson?
Jim Caviezel
#39. 'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too.
Wesley Morris
#40. Success will (a.mel.io.rate), ameliorate all the years of your sadness.
Jon Jones
#41. I'm very proud of being persona non grata. I've never been that before in my life, and that suits me extremely wellI'm known for provocations, but I like provocations when they have a purpose. And this had no purpose whatsoever. Because I'm not Mel Gibson. I'm definitely not Mel Gibson.
Lars Von Trier
#42. I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott.
John Malkovich
#43. Well, I guess the sexual abuse by Mel Phillips in a sense, he had a fetish for feet. He used to play with my feet and other kids' feet, and that was his thing.
Tom Cole
#44. I also try to surround myself with people I love - make a family out of the company. So I tend to use the same people over and over. There's a sort of Mel Brooks Repertory Company.
Mel Brooks
#45. There's only five real people in Hollywood. Everyone else is Mel Blanc.
Jack Benny
#46. Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
Patrick McGoohan
#47. Obviously as a kid, for probably anybody who chose animation voiceover as a career in their adult life, Mel Blanc was the touchstone for everybody. He kind of invented the job and was the first voice actor to get onscreen credit.
Tom Kenny
#48. Okay." I held up my hands in surrender. "I just don't understand this, Mel. Don't bitch-slap the table. It's not its fault.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#49. 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
#50. The one taken underwater of Mel's garden of women,
Rachel Caine
#51. Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.
William Petersen
#52. You set us up!"
"No! I swear - " Her face fell. "Mel. Mel must've told him."
"Right," I grumbled. "Blame Mel.
Rick Riordan
#53. The person who should really write an appreciation of the late great Dom DeLuise is Burt Reynolds, who, even more than Mel Brooks, made of the jolly, beanie wearing fat man a side-kick and a legend.
Rich Cohen
#54. I have a pullout couch, and I could sleep in the living room. You can have the bedroom."
"I'm sorry. No." Mel put her hand on his chest, her eyes sparkling. "I have to draw the line there. I should at least get sex out of this deal or this really would be a tragedy.
Lisa Kessler
#55. If I could have one superpower, I'd be like Mel Gibson in 'What Women Want,' where he reads women's minds.
Ryan Lochte
#56. (mel)"I knew you'd never leave me."
(jack)"Baby, I'd walk out of hell to get back to you.
Robyn Carr
#57. As a kid, I just loved cartoons. And as the credits went by, I'd study those names and then try to figure how I could get hired to do what Mel Blanc and Daws Butler did. Create all of these great voices for animated characters.
Jim Cummings
#58. I did a film many years ago called The Man Without A Face.Gaby [Hoffmann] was in with Mel Gibson. That was his directing debut. He did a great job.
Richard Masur
#59. I mean, I don't want to pass judgment - I just wish my husband didn't shoot deer."
"Oh, Mel, don't worry. I've been hunting with your husband - the deer are completely safe.
Robyn Carr
#60. Mel Gibson doesn't need your judgment, he needs your prayers.
Jim Caviezel
#61. The three drunkest cities in America: Fresno, Riverside, and whatever Mel Gibson is driving through.
Craig Ferguson
#62. You can't fall in love with someone in a day."
"Romeo and Juliet did," Melanie says, tugging me toward the exit.
"Yeah, and then they killed themselves a few hours later. Thanks for the pep talk, Mel.
Chie Aleman
#63. Working with Mel Gibson is a little like waltzing with a hurricane. It's always exciting, and you're never quite sure where it's going to take you.
Jim Caviezel
#64. We have suicide bombers blowing up buses in Israel and very real anti-Semitism on the march in Europe, but the TV networks located the worldwide danger zone for Jews as the space between Mel Gibson's ears.
L. Brent Bozell Jr.
#65. I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.
Reba McEntire
#66. Lately, I don't talk much except to Mel. I make an exception because he has a dog.
Eileen Granfors
#67. So I said I'd had a headache all day (which was true) and on second thought I would go home to bed, and I was sorry. I was out the door again not five minutes after I'd gone in. Mel
Robin McKinley
#68. I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.
John C. McGinley
#69. I don't believe that anyone who is a legitimately interesting person can be popular as a teenager," Mel went on. "Or ever, maybe. Popularity rewards the uninteresting.
Leila Sales
#70. When I was a kid, I wanted to emulate Mel Blanc, who is arguably one of the most legendary voiceover recording artists of our time. I used to watch all the cartoons where he would voice Daffy, Elmer Fudd and Porky the Pig. I knew one day I wanted to do that.
Jesse McCartney
#71. Are you ever going to forgive me?" he asked softly, catching my chin, forcing me to look at him. "Sometimes it feels like you hate me out of habit ... Why does it always have to be a fight, Mel?
Joanna Wylde
#72. I'd worked with Mel Harris before, I love working with her, she's great.
David Keith
#73. Avery had sixth and seventh and eighth senses and could tell more from the way someone stood or said "see you later" than Mel could if she stole the person's diary and read it cover to cover.
Maureen Johnson
#74. I remember seeing Airplane, and even Mel Brooks movies like History of the World Part I, and just really loving that style of movies that make fun of movies. I think it needs to be done. All of these movies are ripe for being poked at.
Ashley Tisdale
#75. Ill give you an idea of how Jewish Mel Brooks is: Thats a nose job.
Martin Short
#76. Even with my skin and tits, though, it's still Mel who looks better. She's got psoriasis and a mustache she has to bleach and still. It's definitely Mel who has any hope in hell with any of the boys we like.
Mona Awad
#77. The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
Nancy Allen
#78. Mel Gibson is my friend. I love Mel. He's not the person that I hear people are often trying to diminish. Whatever his challenges are in life, he still remains someone I'm very close to.
Danny Glover
#79. If Michelle Pfeiffer gave Mel Gibson a vial of blood to wear around his neck in a movie you'd think it was terribly romantic, everyone would cry and they'd win awards. But in real life if someone does that they'd be considered weird.
Billy Bob Thornton
#80. We had to go back to the coffeehouse: the Wreck was there. Mel had walked over. Well, I don't know about walked. He had come over without vehicular assistance anyway.
Robin McKinley
#81. Mogadishu was like the postapocalyptic world of Mel Gibson's Mad Max movies, a world ruled by roving gangs of armed thugs. They were here to rout the worst of the warlords and restore sanity and civilization.
Mark Bowden
#82. Mel Gibson is a tremendously talented creative individual who, unfortunately, is also a conflicted personality. He himself would say that.
Jonathan Morris
#83. Mel Gibson's father doesn't think there was a Holocaust? Great. I don't think there's a movie. We're even.
Joan Rivers
#84. Mel Brooks was a young fan at the time: 'Eddie Cantor was very important to me. Very influential on my work. The sketches were fast and furious - and Cantor was great at supporting the other guy in the sketch. It was Cantor who was making it all work for me.
Kliph Nesteroff
#85. Defeating depression is like playing the carnival game Whac-a-mole. You have to give it your all and be on target to beat that sucker down when it pops up again and again. If you pay attention, learn from your past efforts, and keep at it, you can win." -Mel. Edwards
Mel Edwards
#86. I also have picked a secretary for Housing and Human Development. Mel Martinez from the state of Florida.
George W. Bush
#87. Which to you have?' Mel asked, blocking the entry with his body. 'Talent or issues?' I paused for a moment, thought about this. 'Both,' I said at last.
Leila Sales
#88. Let's live to regret this (Martin Riggs [Mel Gibson] to Lorna Cole [Rene Russo] in Lethal Weapon 3)
Martin Riggs
#89. As Mel ushered me into a seat in front of my mirror, I demanded, This is how I'm supposed to compete with Clotile?
Kresley Cole
#90. Damn, Ty, I'm getting slizzard," Mel says, sending everyone into bouts of laughter. "Dumb ass, you don't have a G6. You can't get slizzard in a frickin' Prius," I joke with her. We all laugh again
Julie Prestsater
#91. In my entire career? I am so sick of being asked, What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson?
Catherine McCormack
#92. We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
Garry Marshall
#93. Nobody thought Mel Gibson could play a Scot, but look at him now! Alcoholic and a racist!
Frankie Boyle
#94. I sound like a sulky teenager, don't I?" "You're more angsty than Edward Cullen on a sunny day." Their laughter filled the car, releasing the ball of nervousness that churned in her stomach during the ride. No matter what she did, there would be a fight. Resigned, Mel took a deep breath.
Carrie Ann Ryan
#95. I've been working with good directors - the Wachowski brothers, Spike Lee, Terry Gilliam, Mel Gibson ... I love American movies, but I love European movies, too, and I want to do both.
Monica Bellucci
#96. When I was younger, I listened to the greats: Winters, Mel and Carl, Nichols and May, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Berman and lots of Lenny Bruce albums. But once I started doing fairly well, I didn't want to hear anybody's jokes or premises.
Richard Lewis
#97. I mean I would still love to be in Mel Brooks' movies; he's great.
Armie Hammer
#98. My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.
John Cusack
#99. Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy.
Dom DeLuise
#100. Oh, here comes Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Smits!
Roger Ebert
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