Mel Brooks Quotes

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• Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
• 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…
• Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
• Humor is just another defense against the universe.
• If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
• If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
• As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
• A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
• If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
• Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
• Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
• Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.
• 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…
• He who hesitates is poor.
• You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
• Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
• If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
• I only direct in self-defense.
• Immortality is a by-product of good work.
• A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

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