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Mel Brooks

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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.


— Mel Brooks


#humor #profanity #shit #vulgarity #humor

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.


— Mel Brooks


#humor #tragedy #humor

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.


— Mel Brooks


#gonna #long #make #mistakes #spinning

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.


— Mel Brooks


#got #lively #living #noisy #quiet

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.


— Mel Brooks


#wit #writing #humor

Humor is just another defense against the universe.


— Mel Brooks


#humor #universe #humor

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.


— Mel Brooks


#especially #everything #fear #life #love

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.


— Mel Brooks


#cooks #essentially #his #moustache #nasty

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.


— Mel Brooks


#presidents #their #wives

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.


— Mel Brooks


#comedy #just #life #literally #look






About Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks Quotes




Did you know about Mel Brooks?

He also began acting in summer stock in Red Bank New Jersey and did some radio work. Around this time he changed his professional name to "Mel Brooks" after being confused with the well-known Borscht Belt trumpet player Max Kaminsky. Brooks himself has a cameo as an alcoholic ex-serf who "yearns for the regular beatings of yesteryear.

His most well known films include The Producers Blazing Saddles Young Frankenstein Silent Movie High Anxiety and Spaceballs. Three of his films ranked in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy films of all-time all of which ranked in the top 20 of the list: Blazing Saddles at number 6 The Producers at number 11 and Young Frankenstein at number 13. He is to receive the 41st AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013.

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