243 Quotes by Mel Brooks

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We’re unrehearsed.

My God, I’d love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, ‘Well done, you god-damn genius.’

It’s good to be the king.

You’re young forever when you write. Alfred Hitchcock directed until the day he died. As long as you don’t have any dementia or Alzheimer’s, if you have your All-Bran every day and clear yourself out, I think your brains are gonna be all right.

If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn’t. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not.

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

Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It’s like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn’t even go through his mind on its way to the page.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.