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Mel Brooks [1926-0] American

Rank: 101
Comedian, Actor

Melvin James Brooks is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, composer and songwriter.
He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for the early TV variety show Your Show of Shows.

Chance, Funny, Death, Fear, Humor, Life, Men, Movies, Music, Religion, Truth

Quote	Tags	Rank
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.	Funny	101
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.	Truth	102
If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.		103
You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.		104
These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.	Men	105
A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.	Music	106
I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.		107
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.		108
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.		109
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.	Funny	110
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.	Fear	111
Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.		112
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.	Chance	113
But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.		114
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.	Death, Life	115
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.	Movies	116
All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security.		117
You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.		118
I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.		119
My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.		120
I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.	Religion	121
Humor is just another defense against the universe.	Humor	122
Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.		123
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.		124
Immortality is a by-product of good work.		125
A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We're all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.		126
If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.		201
If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.	Chance	202
Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.		203
I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.		204
If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.		205
I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.		206
I only direct in self-defense.		207
We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.		208
Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, 'Star Wars', and 'Star Trek'.		209
When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.		210
It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.		211
I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.		212
The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.		213
I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.		214
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.		215
Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.		216
Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.		217
He who hesitates is poor.		218
I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.		219
'Mad About You' was very fun.		220
I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.		221
Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.		222
As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.		223
I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.		224
I wish I was better looking.		225
No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.		226
We rest our case on the production numbers.		301
There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.		302

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