As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
Mel BrooksNo creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not.
Mel BrooksWhy should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.
Mel BrooksMy brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.
Mel BrooksJewish women are very exciting, as exciting sexually as any other group. Even so, my advice to a young man marrying a Jewish girl would be to have three and a half years of foreplay. Of course, most girls in every group are reserved about getting down to it. They don't usually do it right away. But once they do it, women are bananas. They don't wanna do it, you can't make them do it, there's no way they'll do it - but once they do it, they don't let you alone.
Mel Brooks