Mel Brooks Quotes

It's Wheird, there's an H in there. Gotta hit that H otherwise they think I'm some sort of a kook!

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

Dark Helmet: I see your schwartz is as big as mine.

Anytime I could make Carl laugh, I knew I had a winner.

Larry Clinton and his vocalist, Bea Wain,

Count de Monet: It is said that the people are revolting
King Louis XVI: You said it. They stink on ice.

In every classic comedy duo, from Laurel and Hardy to Abbott and Costello to Martin and Lewis, in order for the exchange to work, the quality of the straight man had to be as dynamic as that of the funny guy. Carl was the best at this. I

Lizzie” or a “Flivver.

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.

Leo Bloom: Actors are not animals! They're human beings!
Max Bialystock: They are? Have you ever eaten with one?

Spiegel: Can you also get your revenge on him by using comedy?

Sheriff Bart [waking up a drunk Jim in jail]: Are we awake?
Jim "The Waco Kid": We're not sure. Are we...black?
Sheriff Bart: Yes, we are.
Jim "The Waco Kid": Then we're awake, but we're very puzzled.

As long as the world keeps spinning, people are going to be dizzy and confused.

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

[explaining that Paul Revere was Anti-Semitic] He was scared they were moving into the neighborhood. "They're coming, they're coming. The Yiddish, they're coming"