I love [Nikolai] Gogol's great eye for idiot behavior. Gogol said that life is so tragic, so stupendously sad that we'd better… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that. — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible. The job is to make people laugh. I don't have… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin. — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Feeling different, feeling alienated, feeling persecuted, feeling that the only way to deal with the world is to laugh - because if… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I make people laugh for a living. I believe I can say objectively that what I do I do as well as… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Comedy is lively, comedy is joy, and that's what keeps us [people] going, we've got to look forward to little, little happiness's. Little, little… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
All right, I am often brash, rude and brutally direct. Someday I'm going to die and I don't have time to toe-dance around the… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with? — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head. — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
The audience. They see the name Mel Brooks, they want something really funny. They don't want to be moved; they don't want to be… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I realised that all one really had to do was just observe. Observe and slightly exaggerate, and you had comedy. Instead of creating a… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
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,… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image