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Lady, it rose below vulgarity.
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Mel Brooks
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Melvin James Brooks is an American filmmaker, comedian, actor and songwriter. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 27 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and an Honorary Academy Award in 2024.
All Quotes by Mel Brooks
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Hope for the best. Expect the worst. The world's a stage. We're unrehearsed.
— Mel Brooks
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Leo Bloom: Actors are not animals! They're human beings!Max Bialystock: They are? Have you ever eaten with one?
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
— Mel Brooks
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If they [presidents] can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
— Mel Brooks
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To me, tragedy is if I'll cut my finger, that's tragedy...Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die.
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[explaining that Paul Revere was Anti-Semitic] He was scared they were moving into the neighborhood. "They're coming, they're coming. The Yiddish, they're coming"
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After I eat asparagus...
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You know Cuneiform? You know Sanskrit? It's neither of those.
— Mel Brooks
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Angel of Death ain't kissing me! I'm full of garlic!
— Mel Brooks
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It's Wheird, there's an H in there. Gotta hit that H otherwise they think I'm some sort of a kook!
— Mel Brooks
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[on the greatest invention] Liquid Prell.
— Mel Brooks
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No! You don't wear a hat on your gentles! You wear a hat on your head where you're supposed to wear a hat!
— Mel Brooks
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[On Churchill's Accent] "Ve must conquer da Narjies!" Now, we were fighting and killing Nazis. We all left and went looking for Narjies!
— Mel Brooks
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Excuse me, is this England?
— Mel Brooks
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Who's the dummy writing this show?!
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
— Mel Brooks
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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.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
— Mel Brooks
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
— Mel Brooks
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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
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
— Mel Brooks
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
— Mel Brooks
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
— Mel Brooks
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
— Mel Brooks
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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
— Mel Brooks
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
— Mel Brooks
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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