Zitat des Tages von Mel Brooks:
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
He who hesitates is poor.
We rest our case on the production numbers.
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.
My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security.
Look, I 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've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.
Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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.
When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.
Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.
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.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.
A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.
It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.
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 wish I was better looking.
Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, 'Star Wars', and 'Star Trek'.