Mel Brooks Quotes
17 quotations by Mel Brooks
 | You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself. |  |
| We rest our case on the production numbers. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none. | |
| If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country. | |
| If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. | |
| I only direct in self-defense. | |
| I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front. | |
| Humor is just another defense against the universe. | |
| He who hesitates is poor. | |
| Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love. | |
| Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. | |
| Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. | |
| As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. | |
| Anybody can direct. There are only 11 good writers. | |
| Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers. | |