Mel Brooks Laughing Quotations

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible. The job is to make people laugh. I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.

Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.

Feeling different, feeling alienated, feeling persecuted, feeling that the only way to deal with the world is to laugh - because if you don't laugh you're going to cry and never stop crying - that's probably what's responsible for the Jews having developed such a great sense of humor. The people who had the greatest reason to weep, learned more than anyone else how to laugh.

I 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.