Quotes By Mel Brooks

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'.

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.

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.

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

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

'Mad About You' was very fun.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.

I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.

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 love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

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

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

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

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.