Mel Brooks Quotes

Tragedy is if I cut my finger. Comedy is if I walk into an open sewer and die.

That’s it baby. If you’ve got it, flaunt it.

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

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’.

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

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.

Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

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

‘Mad About You’ was very fun.

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.

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

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

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

I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.