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Quotes by Mel Brooks

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
– Mel Brooks
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
– 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
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
– Mel Brooks
I only direct in self-defense.
– Mel Brooks
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, 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
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
– Mel Brooks
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
– Mel Brooks
That's it baby, when you got it, flaunt it.
– Mel Brooks
Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.
– Mel Brooks
If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
– Mel Brooks
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
– Mel Brooks
I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
– Mel Brooks
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
– Mel Brooks
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
– Mel Brooks
A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.
– Mel Brooks