"Humor is just another defense against the universe." — Mel Brooks
"Humor is just another defense against the universe."
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82 Quotes by Mel Brooks
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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…
- Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
- 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…
- 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…