Mel Brooks Quotes

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

Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen won an Emmy and Mel Brooks didn't! Niezsche was right! There is no God! There is no God!

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.

I've always loved songwriting, and I vowed to be a songwriter like Cole Porter when I was only 9 years old.

My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.

Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through his mind on its way to the page.

Humor is just another defense against theuniverse.

Humour is just another defence against the universe.