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You Quotes by Mel Brooks
- 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.
- If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
- Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.
- You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
- If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
- When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.
- 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…
- I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People…
- Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there and making fun of and…
- Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or…
More You Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide