Mel Brooks Quotes

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Mel Brooks

Life, Death, Around

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

Funny, Die, Comedy

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

Life, Around, Comedy

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
Mel Brooks

Plan, Next, Needs

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
Mel Brooks

Funny, God, Wanted

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
Mel Brooks

Country, Wives, Presidents

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
Mel Brooks

Living, Quiet, Lively

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

Humor, Another, Universe

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
Mel Brooks

Mistakes, Long, Gonna

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
Mel Brooks

Life, Love, Fear

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
Mel Brooks

Truth, Bad, Saying

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
Mel Brooks

Human, Him, Give

Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.
Mel Brooks

Work, Smart, Stupid

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
Mel Brooks

Yourself, Person, Essence

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
Mel Brooks

Good, Down, Chance

He who hesitates is poor.
Mel Brooks

Poor, Hesitates

I only direct in self-defense.
Mel Brooks

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

Anybody, Laughing, Offend

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
Mel Brooks

Good, Anybody, Writers

Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
Mel Brooks

Laughter, Joy, Big

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
Mel Brooks

Business, Behind, Front

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
Mel Brooks

Death, Chance, Beat

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.
Mel Brooks

As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
Mel Brooks

Mean, Far, Guys

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
Mel Brooks

Bad, Deep, Taste

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Nationality: American

Born: June 28, 1926

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