Quote

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
Actor
Composer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Journalist
Librettist
Lyricist
Screenwriter
Soldier
Songwriter
Stage Actor
Brooklyn
New York
Melvin Brooks
Melvin Kaminsky
Defense
Laughter
Humor
Universe
Inspirational
Another
Humour

More quotes by Mel Brooks

Image
I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
Mel Brooks
Image
Basically, I'm a writer. I'm the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen. So if you have a valuable idea, the only way to protect it is to direct it.
Mel Brooks
Image
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.
Mel Brooks
Image
I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.
Mel Brooks
Image
My liveliness is based on an incredible fear of death. In order to keep death at bay, I do a lot of Yah! Yah! Yah! And death says, All right. He's too noisy and busy. I'll wait for someone who's sitting quietly, half asleep.
Mel Brooks
Image
My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you god-damn genius.'
Mel Brooks
Image
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
Mel Brooks
Image
I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
Mel Brooks
Image
You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
Mel Brooks
Image
He who hesitates is poor.
Mel Brooks
Image
My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.
Mel Brooks
Image
Being brave is being scared and worried and still doing it [what you do]. Because if you're just a wacko, a mashugana, a crazy guy, then you're not brave, your nuts!
Mel Brooks
Image
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
Mel Brooks
Image
My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell.
Mel Brooks
Image
Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
Mel Brooks
Image
Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
Mel Brooks
Image
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
Mel Brooks
Image
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
Mel Brooks
Image
But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
Mel Brooks
Image
Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.
Mel Brooks