Mel Brooks - US actor, comedian, & movie director
Mel Brooks, a person of multiple talents belongs to the class of Academy Award winning American actors. He was also a writer, a director and a producer. He was known for the creation of comedy parodies. Starting as a stand up comic he later moved into movies where he worked as an actor, a director and a producer. His first film, The Producers won an Oscar for the Best Original Screenplay.
Some of his most popular films as an actor are Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles.
He later went into the production of films and set up his own company, Brooksfilms which produced a number of movies which include The Fly Frances, 84 Charing Cross Road and My Favorite Year. As a career highlight, he is one of the select few who received an Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy for his contribution to films |
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Quotes and Quotations written by Mel Brooks are :
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
Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
Mel Brooks
We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.
Mel Brooks
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks
I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
Mel Brooks
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
Mel Brooks
If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
Mel Brooks
Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
Mel Brooks
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.
Mel Brooks
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
Mel Brooks
Anybody can direct. There are only 11 good writers.
Mel Brooks
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.
Mel Brooks
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
Mel Brooks
I only direct in self-defense.
Mel Brooks
He who hesitates is poor.
Mel Brooks
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
Mel Brooks
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks
We rest our case on the production numbers.
Mel Brooks
If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
Mel Brooks
When you go up to the bell, ring it, or don't go up to the bell.
Mel Brooks
If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
Mel Brooks
You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
Mel Brooks
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