Mel Brooks Quotes
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If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We're all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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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.
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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.
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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.
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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.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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Max Bialystock: I'm wearing a cardboard belt!
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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Sheriff Bart: Since I am your host and you are my guest what are your hobbies? What do you like to do in your free time?Jim 'The Waco Kid': Oh you know, play chess...screw.Sheriff Bart: Well let's play chess!
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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.
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If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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'.
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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.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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'Mad About You' was very fun.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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Dark Helmet after everyone on the bridge announces that their last name is 'Asshole.': I knew it, I'm surrounded by Assholes.
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Igor: My grandfather used to work for your grandfather. Of course the rates have gone up.
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Dark Helmet: What's the matter Colonel Sandurz... chicken?!
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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.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.