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Quotes by Mel Brooks - (20 quotes)

Mel Brooks - From the Ambition category:

I don't believe in this business of being behind; better to be in front. (Mel Brooks)

Mel Brooks - From the Choices category:

He who hesitates is poor. (Mel Brooks)

Mel Brooks - From the Disappointment category:

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself. (Mel Brooks)

Mel Brooks - From the Ego category:

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)

Mel Brooks - From the Future category:

- The 2000 Year Old Man...
We mock the things we are to be. (Mel Brooks)

Mel Brooks - From the Genius category:

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)

Mel Brooks - From the Hope category:

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. / Life is a play. We're unrehearsed. (Mel Brooks)

Mel Brooks - From the Humour category:

Humor is just another defense against the universe. (Mel Brooks)

Mel Brooks - From the Humour category:

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody. (Mel Brooks)

Mel Brooks - From the Humour category:

Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, it's an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need to replenish themselves with oxygen. So you laugh, you breathe, the blood runs, and everything is circulating. If you don't laugh, you'll die. (Mel Brooks)

Mel Brooks - From the Immortality category:

Immortality is a by-product of good work. (Mel Brooks)

Mel Brooks - From the Life category:

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)

Mel Brooks - From the Mistakes category:

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

Mel Brooks - From the Music category:

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance. (Mel Brooks)

Mel Brooks - From the Politics category:

Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart. (Mel Brooks)

Mel Brooks - From the Questions category:

Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing. (Mel Brooks)

Mel Brooks - From the Taste category:

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. (Mel Brooks)

Mel Brooks - From the Thought category:

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives. (Mel Brooks)

Mel Brooks - From the Travel category:

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. (Mel Brooks)

Mel Brooks - From the Writing category:

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)