Mel Brooks

Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

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

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

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

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

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

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.

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.