243 Quotes by Mel Brooks

Usually when a lot of men get together, it’s called a war.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin...

There’s not enough bad taste! I LOVE bad taste! I live for bad taste! I am the spokesman for bad taste!

I’ve always loved songwriting, and I vowed to be a songwriter like Cole Porter when I was only 9 years old.

Look, I had to take chances or it wasn’t fun being funny.

Organizations like the CIA and the FBI are still kind of supermen, kind of SS troops: We’re blond and the best and everyone else should be incinerated. They don’t know right from wrong. That’s what makes a satire of these government bureaus really funny.

Comedy is serious – deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn’t absurd, no amount of joke will help.

There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn’t afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.