Mel Brooks quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.

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

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.

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