Mel Brooks Quotes

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

~ Mel Brooks

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

~ Mel Brooks

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 names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

~ Mel Brooks

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

~ Mel Brooks

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

~ Mel Brooks

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

~ Mel Brooks

The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that it's coming quickly.

~ Mel Brooks

Humor is just another defense against theuniverse.

~ Mel Brooks

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

~ Mel Brooks

Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.

~ Mel Brooks

Humour is just another defence against the universe.

~ Mel Brooks

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 names identities personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

~ Mel Brooks

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

~ Mel Brooks

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

~ Mel Brooks

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 to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

~ Mel Brooks

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

~ Mel Brooks

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 comedy, they stand no chance.

~ Mel Brooks

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

~ Mel Brooks

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

~ Mel Brooks

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

~ Mel Brooks