243 Quotes by Mel Brooks

Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.

Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. My message to the world is 'Let's swing, sing, shout, make noise! Let's not mimic death before our time comes! Let's be wet and noisy!'

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

I always thought it was great to be able to make people feel better. It was a little like being God.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.