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All Mel Brooks Quotes
If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
Mel Brooks
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks in
Funny
68% of people like this quote
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
60% of people like this quote
We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.
Mel Brooks
59% of people like this quote
If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
Mel Brooks
57% of people like this quote
These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
Mel Brooks
56% of people like this quote
You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
Mel Brooks
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks in
Humor
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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
Mel Brooks
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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
53% of people like this quote
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
Mel Brooks
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If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
Mel Brooks
52% of people like this quote
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