Mel Brooks Quotes

No! You don't wear a hat on your gentles! You wear a hat on your head where you're supposed to wear a hat!

Mel Brooks

We rest our case on the production numbers.

Mel Brooks

• Rest

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

Mel Brooks

• Bad
• Deep

Excuse me, is this England?

Mel Brooks

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.

Mel Brooks

• People
• Job

I wish I was better looking.

Mel Brooks

• Wish

I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.

Mel Brooks

Who's the dummy writing this show?!

Mel Brooks

• Writing

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Mel Brooks

President Skroob: What the hell, it works on Star Trek!

Mel Brooks

• Star

Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.

Mel Brooks

• Joy
• Laughter

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

Mel Brooks

• Army

Sheriff Bart: Excuse me while I whip this out.

Mel Brooks

Leo Bloom: Actors are not animals! They're human beings!Max Bialystock: They are? Have you ever eaten with one?

Mel Brooks

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

Mel Brooks

• People

Stormtrooper Mel : Don't be stupid, be a smarty Come and join the Nazi Party!

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• Party
• Stupid

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?

Mel Brooks

I only direct in self-defense.

Mel Brooks

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

Mel Brooks