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Mel Brooks Quotes & Sayings

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I'm married to a beautiful and talented woman who can lift your spirits just by looking at you. — Mel Brooks

I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up. — Mel Brooks

Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing. — Mel Brooks

Now thyself is more important than Know thyself. — Mel Brooks

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

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter. — Mel Brooks

I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel. — Mel Brooks

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances. — Mel Brooks

I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all. — Mel Brooks

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality. — Mel Brooks

One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder. — Mel Brooks

We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch. — Shawn Wayans

I mean I would still love to be in Mel Brooks' movies; he's great. — Armie Hammer

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives. — Mel Brooks

The only weapon I've got is comedy — Mel Brooks

I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood. — Mel Brooks

We rest our case on the production numbers. — Mel Brooks

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed. — Mel Brooks

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere. — Mel Brooks

I knew it ... I'm surrounded by assholes! — Mel Brooks

They make us live in the crap, and now they're taking the crap away? No! — Mel Brooks

It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't. — Mel Brooks

Humor is just another defense against the
universe. — Mel Brooks

Id like to acknowledge three people who early on knew Mel Brooks was one of the funniest people in the world: Sid Caesar, me, and Mel Brooks. — Carl Reiner

Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy. — Mel Brooks

My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head. — Mel Brooks

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

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers. — Mel Brooks

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody. — Mel Brooks

Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide. — Mel Brooks

Some critics are emotionally desiccated, personally about as attractive as a year-old peach in a single girl's refrigerator. — Mel Brooks

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

Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump. — Mel Brooks

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage. — Mel Brooks

'Mad About You' was very fun. — Mel Brooks

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

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

All right, I am often brash, rude and brutally direct. Someday I'm going to die and I don't have time to toe-dance around the periphery of hatred. — Mel Brooks

I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me. — 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

As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me. — Mel Brooks

Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin. — Mel Brooks

We mock the things we are to be. — Mel Brooks

I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous. — Mel Brooks

Good taste is the enemy of comedy. — Mel Brooks

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country. — Mel Brooks

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you. — Mel Brooks

They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks. — Andy Van Slyke

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

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself. — Mel Brooks

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart ... badoom, badoom, badoom. — Mel Brooks

I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business. — Mel Brooks

I always thought it was great to be able to make people feel better. It was a little like being God. — Mel Brooks

It's good to be the king. — Mel Brooks

You want to be as smart as you can about being stupid. — Mel Brooks

Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that. — Mel Brooks

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance. — Mel Brooks

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat. — Mel Brooks

Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. — Mel Brooks

Cat angels are the reason there are no mice angels. — Mel Brooks

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none. — Mel Brooks

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

It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films. — Mel Brooks

Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you. — Mel Brooks

Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die. — Mel Brooks

Nothing is free. You got to pay to be in society. First you start with homework. — 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

Don't be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party! — Mel Brooks

Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen won an Emmy and Mel Brooks didn't! Niezsche was right! There is no God! There is no God! — Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films. — Mel Brooks

All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security. — Mel Brooks

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius. — Mel Brooks

Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before. — Mel Brooks

I'm always stunned when I find out people like Roosevelt and Tolstoy weren't Jewish. How could I love them so much? — Mel Brooks

I love spaghetti and sex, sometimes together. My dream of heaven is walking naked through fields of pasta fazool. — Mel Brooks

Could be worse ... could be raining."

- Igor — Mel Brooks

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

In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing. — Mel Brooks

I first got involved with Mel Brooks through 'The Elephant Man.' Everybody knows now, but they didn't know at the time that he was the producer. — John Hurt

Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship. — Mel Brooks

Sir, I have seen your film and it is vulgar! Madame, my film rises below vulgarity. — Mel Brooks

You cannot have fun with anything that you don't love or admire or respect. — Mel Brooks

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war. — Mel Brooks

The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you. — Mel Brooks

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth ... the critic — Mel Brooks

My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing. — Mel Brooks

I only direct in self-defense. — Mel Brooks

And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours. — Mike Myers

Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny. — Mel Brooks

There's not enough bad taste! I LOVE bad taste! I live for bad taste! I am the spokesman for bad taste! — Mel Brooks

My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell. — Mel Brooks

Everything starts with writing. — Mel Brooks

The egg cream is psychologically the opposite of circumcision
it pleasurably reaffirms your Jewishness. — Mel Brooks

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety. — Barry Levinson

Ill give you an idea of how Jewish Mel Brooks is: Thats a nose job. — Martin Short

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost. — Mel Brooks

When we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman were waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed. — Mel Brooks

I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting. — Mel Brooks

I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with? — Mel Brooks

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