Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKSTragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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Well, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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I wish I was better looking.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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.
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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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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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Rhetoric 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.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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