Mel Brooks Quotes

The Death Star is just full of British actors opening doors and going,Oh... I... oh... What is it Lieutenant Sebastian? It's just the Rebels, sir... they're here. My God, man! Do they want tea? No, I think they're after something a bit more than that, sir. I don't know what it is, but they've brought a flag. Damn, that's dash cunning of them.

Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.

A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.

Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

You can parody almost anything.

Everything can be satirized.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

I did a film called 'Black Dynamite' that was very, very funny. That seems to be a film that's kind of a cult classic.

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.

Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.

I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.