243 Quotes by Mel Brooks

I make people laugh for a living. I believe I can say objectively that what I do I do as well as anybody. Just say I’m one of the best broken field runners that ever lived. For 35 years I was a cult hero, an underground funny.

I like people with big talents and small neuroses – not always an easy combination to find. I’ve discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get.

You cannot have fun with anything that you don’t love or admire or respect.

Basically, I’m a writer. I’m the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen. So if you have a valuable idea, the only way to protect it is to direct it.

Bialystock: Leo – he who hesitates is poor!

I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible. The job is to make people laugh. I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.

I’m married to a beautiful and talented woman who can lift your spirits just by looking at you.

My mother is very short – four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.