Quotes By Mel Brooks

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.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

He who hesitates is poor.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.

We rest our case on the production numbers.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.

I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

'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.