243 Quotes by Mel Brooks

The egg cream is psychologically the opposite of circumcision--it pleasurably reaffirms your Jewishness.

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.

All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security.

Feeling different, feeling alienated, feeling persecuted, feeling that the only way to deal with the world is to laugh - because if you don't laugh you're going to cry and never stop crying - that's probably what's responsible for the Jews having developed such a great sense of humor. The people who had the greatest reason to weep, learned more than anyone else how to laugh.

I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.

It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films.

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

We mock the things we are to be.