Mel Brooks Quotes

United States, Film Maker
June 28, 1926

Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, and composer. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comedic parodies. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for the early TV variety show Your Show of Shows. He created, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series Get Smart, which ran from 1965 to 1970.

Also known as Actor, Comedian, Composer

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

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- Up
- Nasty
No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

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

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- Music
- Balance
Lady, it rose below vulgarity.

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- Rose
When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

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- Feeling
Josephus: I'm Josephus, and I'm the main course over at the Colosseum!

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He who hesitates is poor.

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Angel of Death ain't kissing me! I'm full of garlic!

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- Death
- Angel
on the greatest invention Liquid Prell.

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Railway Worker: You shifty nigger! They said you was hung!Sheriff Bart : And they was right!

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Sheriff Bart waking up a drunk Jim in jail: Are we awake?Jim 'The Waco Kid': We don't know. Are we black?Sheriff Bart: Yes we are.Jim 'The Waco Kid': Then we're awake, but we're very puzzled.

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- Up
- Black
- Drunk
Ahchoo:Man, white men can't jump!!

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- Men
- Jump
Humor is just another defense against the universe.

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- Universe

Dark Helmet : What? You went over my helmet?

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- Dark
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

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- World
- Long
Jim 'The Waco Kid': My name is Jim, most people call me... Jim.

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- People
I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

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- Great
- Long
- Bad
If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

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- Death
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.

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- Writing
- Support
- Vision

After I eat asparagus...

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Hope for the best. Expect the worst. The world's a stage. We're unrehearsed.

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- World
- Hope
I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.

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- Rock
You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

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