Mel Brooks Quotes

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• Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

  Mel Brooks

  Inspirational, Life, Play

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• I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

  Mel Brooks

  Psychics, Vulgarity Is, Bullshit

  "Mel Brooks Honored With AFI Life Achievement Award" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 7, 2013.

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• Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you.

  Mel Brooks

  Tragedy, Comedy, Happens

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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

  Mistake, Gambling, Spinning Around

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

  Mel Brooks

  Inspiring, Funny Inspirational, Truth

  Quoted in John Robert Columbo, Popcorn in Paradise (1980)

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• When I was a little kid, if somebody said they were thirty-five, I'd say "Oooh, they're going to die soon". But as I get older it doesn't mean a thing. You mustn't ever give in. Never give in to thinking you're old, because you're never old. Your mind, and I tell you this and listen to me carefully, your mind is never, ever old, it's eternally young.

  Mel Brooks

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

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  If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

  Mel Brooks

  Country, Wife, President

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• Humor is just another defense against the universe.

  Mel Brooks

  Inspirational, Laughter, Humor

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Mel Brooks

  Funny, Death, Suicide

  "The 2,000 Year Old Man". Animation, Comedy, 1975.

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  The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that it's coming quickly.

  Mel Brooks

  Sex, Ejaculation, Premature Ejaculation

  "History of the World: Part I". www.imdb.com. 1981.

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

  Mel Brooks

  Funny, Religion, Politics

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• Feeling different, feeling alienated, feeling persecuted, feeling that the only way to deal with the world is to laugh - because if you don't laugh you're going to cry and never stop crying - that's probably what's responsible for the Jews having developed such a great sense of humor. The people who had the greatest reason to weep, learned more than anyone else how to laugh.

  Mel Brooks

  People, Laughing, Feelings

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• If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.

  Mel Brooks

  Opposites, Alive, Noise

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

  Mel Brooks

  Laughter, Laughing, Looks

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• With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

  Mel Brooks

  Artist, Birth, Inevitable

  History of the World: Part I, www.imdb.com. 1981.

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• You want to be as smart as you can about being stupid.

  Mel Brooks

  Smart, Stupid, Want

  "Q&A with Mel Brooks". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, beta.latimes.com. May 19, 2008.

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• Cat angels are the reason there are no mice angels.

  Mel Brooks

  Cat, Angel, Reason

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• Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.

  Mel Brooks

  Writing, Trying, Actors

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

  Mel Brooks

  Funny Life, Heart, My Heart

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• Never retire! Do what you do and keep doing it. But don't do it on Friday. Take Friday off. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, go fishing...Then Monday to Thursday, do what you've been doing all your life. My point is: Live full and don't retreat.

  Mel Brooks

  Friday, Monday, Sunday

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• Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.

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  Suicide, Three, Wanted

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.thedailybeast.com. October 18, 2014.

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• The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you.

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  Crazy, Finals, Tests

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• All right, I am often brash, rude and brutally direct. Someday I'm going to die and I don't have time to toe-dance around the periphery of hatred.

  Mel Brooks

  Hatred, Rude, Toes

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• My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell.

  Mel Brooks

  Expression, Bells, My Favorite

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• Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need to replenish themselves with oxygen. So you laugh, you breathe, the blood runs, and everything is circulating. If you dont laugh, youll die.

  Mel Brooks

  Running, Song, Elderly

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