There's not enough bad taste! I LOVE bad taste! I live for bad taste! I am the spokesman for bad taste!
Mel BrooksI'm always stunned when I find out people like Roosevelt and Tolstoy weren't Jewish. How could I love them so much?
Mel BrooksLook at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.
Mel BrooksI love [Nikolai] Gogol's great eye for idiot behavior. Gogol said that life is so tragic, so stupendously sad that we'd better laugh a lot and enjoy ourselves. You either get a sense of humor going or you go under.
Mel Brooks