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Mel Brooks (Film Director)

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
— Mel Brooks age
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
— Mel Brooks need
If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
— Mel Brooks living
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 life
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
— Mel Brooks world
You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
— Mel Brooks you
A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.
— Mel Brooks music
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
— Mel Brooks universe
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
— Mel Brooks truth
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 true
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
— Mel Brooks want
Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.
— Mel Brooks art
Immortality is a by-product of good work.
— Mel Brooks work
If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
— Mel Brooks country
Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
— Mel Brooks comedy
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
— Mel Brooks love
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 people
I only direct in self-defense.
— Mel Brooks self
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 people
If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
— Mel Brooks death
I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.
— Mel Brooks mind
If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
— Mel Brooks you
You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
— Mel Brooks self
But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
— Mel Brooks wit
We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.
— Mel Brooks people
Now thyself is more important than “Know thyself.
— Mel Brooks self

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