Words matter. These are the best Mel Brooks Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
I only direct in self-defense.
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.
All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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.
You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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 wish I was better looking.
If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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.
I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
We rest our case on the production numbers.
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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.
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.
