Mel Brooks Quotes

Townspeople: A black sheriff? Blinkin: He's Black?! Ahchoo: Why not? It worked in Blazing Saddles.

Railway Worker: You shifty nigger! They said you was hung!
Sheriff Bart : And they was right!

Failure is vital. It is an incredibly important quotient in the equation of a career. After you wipe away your tears, it’s not a bad experience and under the right circumstances it will make you better, both as a person and as an artist. I think it’s important to fail, especially between the ages of twenty and thirty. Success is like sugar. It’s too good. It’s too sweet. It’s too wonderful and it burns up very quickly. Failure is like corned beef hash. It takes a while to eat. It takes a while to digest. But it stays with you.

I got it! I got it! I got it!…I ain’t got it.

We mock the things we are to be.

I think Peter Falk had one real eye and one glass eye, and having one eye was probably better for shooting pool than having two.

I’ve worked with many great people in my life, but there will never be another Carl Reiner.

Jim "The Waco Kid": My name is Jim, but most people call me...Jim.

Lizzie” or a “Flivver.

They seized on that word and with my blessing made a beautiful cabernet sauvignon called Harumph. So if you’re disappointed when you don’t get a “harrumph” out of your audience, you can always buy a great bottle of Harumph wine instead.

Dark Helmet: What's the matter Colonel Sandurz... chicken?!'''

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

But let’s get back to Melvin Kaminsky.

Bialystock: Leo - he who hesitates is poor!

Bialystock: How dare you condemn me without knowing all the facts!
Bloom: Mr Bialystock...
Bialystock: Shut up! I'm having a rhetorical conversation.You see this? This once held a pearl as big as your eye. Look at me now. Look at me now! I'm wearing a cardboard belt.