Author: Mel Brooks

Quotes

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

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

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

- 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

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

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

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

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

- Mel Brooks

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

- Mel Brooks

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.

- Mel Brooks

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