Mel Brooks Quotes

Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.

Humor is just another defence against the universe.

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

We can always count on the British. Except for the Revolutionary War they’ve been perfect.

I've been taught ever since I was a kid that sex is filthy and forbidden, and that's the way I think it should be. The filthier and more forbidden it is, the more exciting it is.

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

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

Tradgedy is when i cut my finger, Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die

(At an Emmy Awards ceremony after leaping onto a table) Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen won an Emmy and Mel Brooks didn't! Niezsche was right! There is no God! There is no God!

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.