Mel Brooks Quotes

Comedy brings religious persecutors, dictators, and tyrants to their knees faster than any other weapon.

No! You don't wear a hat on your gentles! You wear a hat on your head where you're supposed to wear a hat!

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

Look, I really 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 got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy, colorful and lively.

Sheriff Bart: Excuse me while I whip this out.

King Louis XVI: [prior to his arrest] It's good to be the king. [also used in Robin Hood- Men In Tights and The Producers [Musical]]

Max Bialystock: How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right?

Angel of Death ain't kissing me! I'm full of garlic!

[on ancient poetry] Nog Nog! Mkellen bebog! V'luch Matuch Maluch M'tog!

They make us live in the crap, and now they're taking the crap away? No!

He was an incredibly good neighbor because he would come over and spill his troubles and worries to me, and I would spill all my doubts and fears to him. We would buoy each other up with false statements and lies.

LSD as Adolf Hitler: Heil Baby!

"Could be worse ... could be raining."

- Igor

Dr. Frankenstein Damn your eyes!
Igor (pointing at his lazy eye) Too late!

But let’s get back to Melvin Kaminsky.