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Mel Brooks Quotes
Mel Brooks
American
Comedian
Born:
Jun 28
,
1926
Because
Good
Got
Me
People
You
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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.
Mel Brooks
Good
You
People
Comedy
Down
Mussolini
No Chance
Because
Does
Get
Just
Rhetoric
Anywhere
Stand
Bring
Chance
If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
Mel Brooks
You
Living
Colorful
Noisy
Got
Quiet
Lively
If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
Mel Brooks
You
Win
Never
Trade
Dictator
Rhetoric
Soapbox
Stand
Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.
Mel Brooks
Work
You
Smart
Stupid
Well
Politically
Politically Incorrect
Just
Being
Incorrect
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
Mel Brooks
World
Long
Mistakes
Spinning
Dizzy
Make
Gonna
Turning
If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
Mel Brooks
Country
Presidents
Wives
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
Life
Death
You
Will
Think
Philosophic
Wax
Say
Alive
Must
Noisy
Look
Arms
Around
Got
Least
Opposite
Lot
Jump
Very
Flap
Want
Legs
Your
Therefore
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
People
Human Being
Skin
Living
Every
Other
Relate
Hundreds
Characters
Ability
Give
Writer
Talent
Names
Identities
Him
His
Human
Being
Personalities
Them
Separate
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks
Humor
Universe
Defense
Another
Just
Against
Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
Mel Brooks
Life
You
Comedy
Abound
Look
Around
Just
Literally
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
Would
Rather
True
True Genius
Tall
Normal
Than
Oh
Short
Near
He who hesitates is poor.
Mel Brooks
Hesitates
He
Poor
Who
If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
Mel Brooks
Death
Beat
Practically
None
Got
Einstein
Chance
I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
Mel Brooks
Torch
Mission
Burn
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.
Mel Brooks
Me
Cole Porter
Those
Berlin
Guys
Songwriters
Always
George
Been
Lot
Gershwin
As Far As
Fan
Mean
Far
Porter
Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
Mel Brooks
Good
Direct
Only
Writers
Anybody
Eleven
I only direct in self-defense.
Mel Brooks
Self-Defense
Direct
Only
We rest our case on the production numbers.
Mel Brooks
Rest
Our
Case
Production
Numbers
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
Mel Brooks
Life
Love
Fear
Everything
Based
'Mad About You' was very fun.
Mel Brooks
You
Mad
About
Very
Fun
When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.
Mel Brooks
You
Feeling
Okay
Berlin
Come
Felt
Always
Uneasy
Germany
Jew
I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
Mel Brooks
Me
Army
Like
I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.
Mel Brooks
Dangerous
He
Like
Rock
Chris
Chris Rock
It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.
Mel Brooks
You
Talent
Got
Either
The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
Mel Brooks
Character
Made
Back
Books
Brooks
Russian
Never
He
Like
Always
His
Existed
Up
Authorities
Max
Story
Quotes
Professor
Brilliance
Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
Mel Brooks
Good
Director
Pretty
Pretty Good
Both
Producer
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