Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKSOh, 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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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These 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.
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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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