Mel Brooks Quotes

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your a...

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up hi...

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

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

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writ...

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.

Humor is just another defense against theuniverse.

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

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

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is h...

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But i...

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating th...

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is h...

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

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

Humour is just another defence against the universe.

The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that it's coming quick...