02UndatedTragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.Mel Brooks / quote ↗
03UndatedEvery 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 / quote ↗
04UndatedI have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.Mel Brooks / quote ↗
05UndatedAs long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.Mel Brooks / quote ↗
07UndatedThe only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that it's coming quickly.Mel Brooks / quote ↗
09UndatedIf you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.Mel Brooks / quote ↗
10UndatedLook 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.Mel Brooks / quote ↗
12UndatedI don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.Mel Brooks / quote ↗
13UndatedLook, 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 / quote ↗
15UndatedRhetoric 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 / quote ↗
18UndatedA cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.Mel Brooks / quote ↗
