Author: Mel Brooks

Quotes

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

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

- Mel Brooks

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

- Mel Brooks

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.

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

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

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

- Mel Brooks

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

- Mel Brooks

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

- Mel Brooks

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

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

- Mel Brooks

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

- Mel Brooks

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

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

- Mel Brooks

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