Mel Brooks Quotes
-
It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.
-
Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
-
Dark Helmet : So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.
-
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.
-
Who's the dummy writing this show?!
-
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
-
I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
-
I wish I was better looking.
-
I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
-
There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
-
I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.
-
President Skroob: What the hell, it works on Star Trek!
-
Sheriff Bart: Excuse me while I whip this out.
-
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
-
We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.
-
Max Bialystock: How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right?
-
Stormtrooper Mel : Don't be stupid, be a smarty Come and join the Nazi Party!
-
I only direct in self-defense.
-
If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.