243 Quotes by Mel Brooks

When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when they became adults, they would talk Yiddish like the adults did. There would be no reason to talk English anymore, because we would have made it.

I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.

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

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

It's good to be the king.

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

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