Mel Brooks

“כל אחד יכול לביים, אבל יש רק 11 תסריטאים טובים.”

“טרגדיה – כאשר אני נחתך באצבע. קומדיה – כאשר אתה נפל לבור ביוב ומת.”

“כל מה שאנחנו עושים בחיינו מבוסס על פחד. בעיקר האהבה.”

“הומור הוא לא יותר מאשר עוד מנגנון הגנה כנגד היקום.”

“צחוק הוא העיסוי הטוב ביותר שיש ללב.”

“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”

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

“Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.”

“A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.”

“Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.”

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

“If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.”

“Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.”

“Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.”

“These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.”

“If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.”

“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.”

“I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.”

“I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.”

“The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.”