Quotes from Mel Brooks

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 don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

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

I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.

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

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

Comedy is when you accidentally fall off a cliff and die. Tragedy is when I have a hangnail.

It's simply a matter of creative accounting.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

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.

That's it, baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.

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

Springtime for Hitler and Germany,Deutschland is happy and gay.We're moving to a faster pace,Look out, here comes the Master Race!

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

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

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

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

Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

Where did we go right?

Presidents don't do it to their wives. They do it to their country.

That's it baby, when you got it, flaunt it.

What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is a-goin' on here?

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