Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
MEL BROOKSThese 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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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I wish I was better looking.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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