Quotes By Mel Brooks

I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

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

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.

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

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

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.