Mel Brooks Quotes

Max Bialystock: I'm wearing a cardboard belt!

Igor:: Sed-a...
Inga:: Sed-a...
Igor:: Dirty word! He said a dirty word!

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.

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

Sheriff Bart: Where the white women at?

Comedy is a very powerful component in life. It has the most to say about the human condition because if you laugh you can get by. You can struggle when things are bad if you have a s sense of humor. Laughter is a protest scream against death, against the long good bye. Its a defense against unhappiness and depression.

Max Bialystock: That's it, baby, when you've got it, flaunt it, flaunt it!

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

Robin Hood: Because unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with a English accent.

Sheriff Bart: Excuse me while I whip this out.

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.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Dark Helmet [after everyone on the bridge announces that their last name is "Asshole."]: I knew it, I'm surrounded by Assholes.'''

Igor (limping off): Walk this way — and Dr. Frankenstein limps off after him.

In keeping with James Whale, I went back to old-fashioned 1930s editing techniques