Quotes By Mel Brooks

'Mad About You' was very fun.

I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.

It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.

I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

I only direct in self-defense.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, 'Star Wars', and 'Star Trek'.

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.