Mel Brooks Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Mel Brooks Quotes and Sayings


  • 1
    Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers. Mel Brooks | Refcard PDF
  • 2
    As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. Mel Brooks | Refcard PDF
  • 3
    Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. Mel Brooks | Refcard PDF
  • 4
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 5
    Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love. Mel Brooks | Refcard PDF
  • 6
    He who hesitates is poor. Mel Brooks | Refcard PDF
  • 7
    Humor is just another defense against the universe. Mel Brooks | Refcard PDF
  • 8
    I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front. Mel Brooks | Refcard PDF
  • 9
    I only direct in self-defense. Mel Brooks | Refcard PDF
  • 10
    If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. Mel Brooks | Refcard PDF
  • 11
    If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country. Mel Brooks | Refcard PDF
  • 12
    If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none. Mel Brooks | Refcard PDF
  • 13
    If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively. Mel Brooks | Refcard PDF
  • 14
    Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you. Mel Brooks | Refcard PDF
  • 15
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 16
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 17
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 18
    Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. Mel Brooks | Refcard PDF
  • 19
    We rest our case on the production numbers. Mel Brooks | Refcard PDF
  • 20
    We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody. Mel Brooks | Refcard PDF
  • 21
    You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself. Mel Brooks | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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