~ Mel Brooks Quotes ~

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Mel Brooks Quotes


An American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer.
Melvin "Mel" Kaminsky (born June 28, 1926), better known by his stage name Mel Brooks, is an American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer. He is best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks is a member of the short list of entertainers with the distinction of having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony award. Three of his films ranked in the American Film Institute's list of the Top 100 comedy films of all-time: Blazing Saddles at number 6, The Producers at number 11, and Young Frankenstein at number 13.

Here are some famous quotes by Mel Brooks.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

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Humour is just another defence against the universe.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.