21 Quotes & Sayings By Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks is an Academy Award, Emmy, and Tony Award winner. He has written, directed, or produced nearly 100 films including The Producers (1968), Young Frankenstein (1974), Blazing Saddles (1974), History of the World Part I (1981), Spaceballs (1987), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002), Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (2000) and The Simpsons Movie (2007). A special awards ceremony held in his honor at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City in September 2005 honored him for his career achievements Read more

He was honored with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame in January 2007.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit. Mel Brooks
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. Mel Brooks
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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
I have always been a huge admirer of my own...
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I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know. Mel Brooks
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're...
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. Mel Brooks
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially...
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love. Mel Brooks
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The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that it's coming quickly. Mel Brooks
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Humor is just another defense against theuniverse. Mel Brooks
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If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively. Mel Brooks
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Humor is just another defense against the universe. Mel Brooks
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Look 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 Brooks
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Humour is just another defence against the universe. Mel Brooks
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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
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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front. Mel Brooks
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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
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A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance. Mel Brooks
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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
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. Mel Brooks
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. Mel Brooks
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan. Mel Brooks