Mel Brooks Quotes

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks



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Topic:
Humor Quotes
Type:
Comedian Quotes
Category:
American Comedian Quotes
Date of Birth:
June 28, 1926
Nationality:
American
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Related Authors:
George Carlin
Mitch Hedberg
Steven Wright
Bill Cosby
Groucho Marx
Rodney Dangerfield
W. C. Fields
Bob Hope

Select Mel Brooks Quotations:
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

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

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

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

We rest our case on the production numbers.
Mel Brooks

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


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All Mel Brooks Quotations:
Anybody can direct, but there are...
As long as the world is...
Bad taste is simply saying the...
Every human being has hundreds of...
Everything we do in life is...
He who hesitates is poor.
Humor is just another defense against...
I don't believe in this business...
I only direct in self-defense.
If God wanted us to fly...
If presidents can't do it to...
If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat...
If you're quiet, you're not living...
Life literally abounds in comedy if...
Look, I don't want to wax...
Rhetoric does not get you anywhere...
These men both publicly and privately...
Tragedy is when I cut my...
We rest our case on the...
We want to get people laughing...
You're always a little disappointing in...