All Mel Brooks Quotes
- Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. Comedy
- 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… Alive
- Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you. Abound
- Humor is just another defense against the universe. Another Defense
- If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. Aviation
- If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country. Country
- As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. Dizzy
- A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan. Cinema
- If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively. Color
- Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. Bad
- Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love. Based
- Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart. Incorrect
- 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… Ability
- He who hesitates is poor. Funny
- You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself. Disappointing
- Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers. Anybody
- If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none. Beat
- I only direct in self-defense. Defense
- Immortality is a by-product of good work. Good
- A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance. Balance
- But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality. Bad
- We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody. Anybody
- Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy. Big
- I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter. Inspirational
- If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win. Dictator