--- title: "12 Knows Quotes By Mel Brooks" description: "12 Knows quotes by Mel Brooks. Plus more from Mel Brooks and more Knows sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c03/mel-brooks-2308_important_now-thyself-is-more-important-than-know_801256.png" --- > [Now thyself is more important than “Know thyself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/now-thyself-is-more-important-than-know-thyself/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c03/mel-brooks-2308_important_now-thyself-is-more-important-than-know_801256.png) > [I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/i-don-t-know-what-to-say-so-i-ll-just-say-what-s-in-my-heart-badoom/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/054/mel-brooks-2308_funny-life_i-don-t-know-what-to-say-so-i-ll-just-sa_1051996.png) > [Basically, I'm a writer. I'm the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/basically-i-m-a-writer-i-m-the-proprietor-of-the-vision-i-alone-know/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9c/mel-brooks-2308_direct_basically-i-m-a-writer-i-m-the-proprieto_710204.png) > [The thing is to be brave and move the audience with you, instead of cater to the lowest common denominator, you know,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/the-thing-is-to-be-brave-and-move-the-audience-with-you-instead-of/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d9/mel-brooks-2308_appreciation_the-thing-is-to-be-brave-and-move-the-au_1640781.jpg) > [The Twelve Chairs is about the same thing. It's all about money or love. We know we need money, we know we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/the-twelve-chairs-is-about-the-same-thing-it-s-all-about-money-or/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e92/mel-brooks-2308_affection_the-twelve-chairs-is-about-the-same-thin_1589838.png) > [Organizations like the CIA and the FBI are still kind of supermen, kind of SS troops: We're blond and the best and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/organizations-like-the-cia-and-the-fbi-are-still-kind-of-supermen/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/572/mel-brooks-2308_cia_organizations-like-the-cia-and-the-fbi-a_1561010.png) > [When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/when-i-m-writing-a-script-i-don-t-worry-about-plot-as-much-as-i-do/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b46/mel-brooks-2308_action_when-i-m-writing-a-script-i-don-t-worry_2856408.png) > [If Ivan the Terrible had been kissed and loved between zero and three, he probably would have become Ivan Not So Terrible.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/if-ivan-the-terrible-had-been-kissed-and-loved-between-zero-and-three/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b1/mel-brooks-2308_faces_if-ivan-the-terrible-had-been-kissed-and_308833.png) > [No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/no-creative-writer-knows-what-is-commercial-and-what-isn-t-you-just/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cc/mel-brooks-2308_creative_no-creative-writer-knows-what-is-commerc_1996604.png) > [You often hear that people go into show business to find the love they never had when they were children. Never believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/you-often-hear-that-people-go-into-show-business-to-find-the-love/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/791/mel-brooks-2308_actor_you-often-hear-that-people-go-into-show_1241114.png) > [In real life people fart, in the movies, people don't. Why not? Farts are a repressed minority. The mouth gets to say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/in-real-life-people-fart-in-the-movies-people-don-t-why-not-farts-are/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efd/mel-brooks-2308_all-kinds_in-real-life-people-fart-in-the-movies-p_1801059.jpg) > [Let's have a merry journey, and shout about how light is good and dark is not. What we should do is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/let-s-have-a-merry-journey-and-shout-about-how-light-is-good-and-dark/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82a/mel-brooks-2308_crazy_let-s-have-a-merry-journey-and-shout-abo_836724.jpg) ## Other authors on Knows ## More by Mel Brooks > [Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/woody-allen-is-a-genius-his-films-are-wonderful-he-s-poetic-but-he-s/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) > [ Comedy is lively, comedy is joy, and that's what keeps us \[people\] going, we've got to look forward to little, little happiness's. Little, little… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/comedy-is-lively-comedy-is-joy-and-that-s-what-keeps-us-people-going/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) > [All right, I am often brash, rude and brutally direct. Someday I'm going to die and I don't have time to toe-dance around the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/all-right-i-am-often-brash-rude-and-brutally-direct-someday-i-m-going/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) > [I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/i-don-t-think-in-terms-of-results-at-all-i-think-what-next-insanity/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) > [My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/my-mother-is-very-short-four-eleven-she-could-walk-under-tables-and/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) > [The audience. They see the name Mel Brooks, they want something really funny. They don't want to be moved; they don't want to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/the-audience-they-see-the-name-mel-brooks-they-want-something-really/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) > [I realised that all one really had to do was just observe. Observe and slightly exaggerate, and you had comedy. Instead of creating a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/i-realised-that-all-one-really-had-to-do-was-just-observe-observe-and/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) > [Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/life-literally-abounds-in-comedy-if-you-just-look-around-you/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) > [Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/look-i-really-don-t-want-to-wax-philosophic-but-i-will-say-that-if/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) > [I knew it... I'm surrounded by assholes!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/i-knew-it-i-m-surrounded-by-assholes/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) > [I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/i-was-in-the-army-and-to-me-it-was-like-a-newsreel/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) > [But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/but-i-have-bad-taste-with-a-deep-fount-of-intellectuality/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) > ['Mad About You' was very fun.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/mad-about-you-was-very-fun/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) > [Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/immortality-is-a-by-product-of-good-work-masterpieces-are-not-for/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) > [If Ivan the Terrible had been kissed and loved between zero and three, he probably would have become Ivan Not So Terrible. If you're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/if-ivan-the-terrible-had-been-kissed-and-loved-between-zero-and-three/) [Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/knows/mel-brooks/#itemlist", "name": "12 Knows Quotes By Mel Brooks", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Now thyself is more important than “Know thyself.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mel Brooks" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/now-thyself-is-more-important-than-know-thyself/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c03/mel-brooks-2308_important_now-thyself-is-more-important-than-know_801256.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c03/mel-brooks-2308_important_now-thyself-is-more-important-than-know_801256.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c03/mel-brooks-2308_important_now-thyself-is-more-important-than-know_801256.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Now thyself is more important than “Know thyself.” — Mel Brooks", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mel Brooks" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/i-don-t-know-what-to-say-so-i-ll-just-say-what-s-in-my-heart-badoom/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/054/mel-brooks-2308_funny-life_i-don-t-know-what-to-say-so-i-ll-just-sa_1051996.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/054/mel-brooks-2308_funny-life_i-don-t-know-what-to-say-so-i-ll-just-sa_1051996.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/054/mel-brooks-2308_funny-life_i-don-t-know-what-to-say-so-i-ll-just-sa_1051996.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.” — Mel Brooks", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Basically, I'm a writer. 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That's what makes a satire of these government bureaus really funny.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mel Brooks" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/organizations-like-the-cia-and-the-fbi-are-still-kind-of-supermen/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/572/mel-brooks-2308_cia_organizations-like-the-cia-and-the-fbi-a_1561010.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/572/mel-brooks-2308_cia_organizations-like-the-cia-and-the-fbi-a_1561010.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/572/mel-brooks-2308_cia_organizations-like-the-cia-and-the-fbi-a_1561010.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Organizations like the CIA and the FBI are still kind of supermen, kind of SS troops: We're blond and the…” — Mel Brooks", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. 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Because you know the rest are wrong and you don't want to hurt their feelings.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mel Brooks" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/if-ivan-the-terrible-had-been-kissed-and-loved-between-zero-and-three/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b1/mel-brooks-2308_faces_if-ivan-the-terrible-had-been-kissed-and_308833.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b1/mel-brooks-2308_faces_if-ivan-the-terrible-had-been-kissed-and_308833.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b1/mel-brooks-2308_faces_if-ivan-the-terrible-had-been-kissed-and_308833.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If Ivan the Terrible had been kissed and loved between zero and three, he probably would have become Ivan…” — Mel Brooks", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mel Brooks" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/no-creative-writer-knows-what-is-commercial-and-what-isn-t-you-just/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cc/mel-brooks-2308_creative_no-creative-writer-knows-what-is-commerc_1996604.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cc/mel-brooks-2308_creative_no-creative-writer-knows-what-is-commerc_1996604.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cc/mel-brooks-2308_creative_no-creative-writer-knows-what-is-commerc_1996604.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. 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So they went into show business to recapture the love they had known as children when they were the center of the universe.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mel Brooks" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/you-often-hear-that-people-go-into-show-business-to-find-the-love/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/791/mel-brooks-2308_actor_you-often-hear-that-people-go-into-show_1241114.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/791/mel-brooks-2308_actor_you-often-hear-that-people-go-into-show_1241114.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/791/mel-brooks-2308_actor_you-often-hear-that-people-go-into-show_1241114.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“You often hear that people go into show business to find the love they never had when they were children…” — Mel Brooks", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In real life people fart, in the movies, people don't. Why not? Farts are a repressed minority. The mouth gets to say all kinds of things, but the other place is supposed to keep quiet. But maybe our lower colons have something interesting to say. Maybe we should listen to them. Farts are human, more human than a lot of people I know. 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