243 Quotes by Mel Brooks

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

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

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

I love spaghetti and sex, sometimes together. My dream of heaven is walking naked through fields of pasta fazool.

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

The only weapon I've got is comedy

You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.

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 taught any lessons. But I get more letters for Twelve Chairs and Life Stinks than I get from any other movies, because people actually agree with the philosophy, or were moved, or they love the movie.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.