Humorous Quotes attributed to Mel Brooks
1926- , American Comedian, Writer and Filmmaker

Mel Brooks on Serbia...
At night, you can't do anything, because all of Belgrade is lit by a ten-watt bulb, and you can't go anywhere, because Tito has the car... And the food in Yugoslavia is either very good or very bad. One day we arrived on location late and starving and they served us fried chains. When we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman were waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed. ~ Playboy, Feb 1975

Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny. (Playboy, Feb 1965)

Me? Not like the Germans? Why should I not like Germans? Just because they're arrogant and have fat necks and do anything they're told so long as it's cruel, and killed millions of Jews in concentration camps and made soap out of their bodies and lamp shades out of their skins? Is that any reason to hate their f***ing guts? (Playboy, Feb 1975)

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

My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream a the remains, 'Well done, you god-damn genius.'

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.

One day God said, 'Let there be prey,' and he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder. (Newsweek, Feb 1975)

Think what a barren existence it would be without the constant asking for money and the sarcasm and the laughing at you and telling you, 'Pop, there's all kinds of stuff hanging out of your nose.'

They're (Movies are) the most expensive art form ever invented. Leonardo didn't need a studio chief for the money to draw a lower jaw. All he needed was a nickel for a pencil. Goya could paint you a national tragedy for $1.69. But to make a movie you need $1 million. (Newsweek, Feb 1975)

To me tragedy is if I cut my finger. . . . Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die.

Unrelieved lamenting would be untolerable. So, for every ten Jews, beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. (Newsweek, Feb 1975)

We (Carl Reiner and me) hang out together. Tonight, for instance, we're going to eat at Pritikin. But we can't hang out afterwards because it's very gassy food. (Modern Maturity, March 1999)

We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me. (Playboy, Feb 1975)

We're going to die anyway. And because of that, let's have a merry journey, and shout about how light is good and dark is not. What we should do is not future ourselves so much. We should now ourselves more. 'Now thyself' is more important than 'Know thyself.'

Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.

You cannot have fun with anything that you don't love or admire or respect.

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Humorous Quotes attributed to Mel Brooks1926- , American Comedian, Writer and Filmmaker

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