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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.
- Mel Brooks
#Genius
#Say
#Short
#Tall
#True
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
#Ability
#Living
#People
#Skin
#Talent
You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
- Mel Brooks
#Brave
#Feel
#Got
#Risk
#Something
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
- Mel Brooks
#Actually
#Combat
#Last
#Soldier
#War
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
- Mel Brooks
#Fly
#Funny
#God
#He
#Us
Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
- Mel Brooks
#Around
#Comedy
#Just
#Life
#Look
If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
- Mel Brooks
#Country
#Presidents
#Wives
You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
- Mel Brooks
#Always
#Essence
#Person
#You
#Yourself
Immortality is a by-product of good work.
- Mel Brooks
#Good Work
#Good
#Immortality
#Work
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
- Mel Brooks
#Based
#Everything
#Fear
#Life
#Love
Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.
- Mel Brooks
#Being
#Smart
#Stupid
#Well
#Work
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
- Mel Brooks
#Dizzy
#Long
#Mistakes
#Spinning
#World
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.
- Mel Brooks
#Chance
#Comedy
#Good
#People
#Stand
It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.
- Mel Brooks
#Either
#Got
#Talent
#You
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
#Bad
#Said
#Saying
#Simply
#Taste
#Truth
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
#Alive
#Death
#Jump
#Life
#Look
If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
- Mel Brooks
#Colorful
#Got
#Lively
#Living
#Quiet
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
- Mel Brooks
#Cinema
#Movies
#Nasty
#Next
#Villain
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
- Mel Brooks
#Against
#Defense
#Humor
#Just
#Universe
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks
#Comedy
#Die
#Fall
#Funny
#Tragedy
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