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Best Quotes by Mel Brooks (Top 10)

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
Mel Brooks
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
Mel Brooks
The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that it's coming quickly.
Mel Brooks
Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
Mel Brooks
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks
If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
Mel Brooks
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
If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
Mel Brooks
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
Mel Brooks

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
Mel Brooks
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
Mel Brooks
My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell.
Mel Brooks
Feeling different, feeling alienated, feeling persecuted, feeling that the only way to deal with the world is to laugh - because if you don't laugh you're going to cry and never stop crying - that's probably what's responsible for the Jews having developed such a great sense of humor. The people who had the greatest reason to weep, learned more than anyone else how to laugh.
Mel Brooks
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.
Mel Brooks
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
Mel Brooks
Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need to replenish themselves with oxygen. So you laugh, you breathe, the blood runs, and everything is circulating. If you dont laugh, youll die.
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