Mel Brooks Quotes & Sayings
54 most famous Mel Brooks quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 98 year old American comedian born on Jun 28, 1926.
“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”
“If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.”
“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.”
“As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.”
“Humor is just another defense against the universe.”
“You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.”
“A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.”
“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.”
“Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.”
“If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.”
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