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Mel Brooks

Read through the most famous quotes from Mel Brooks




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


— Mel Brooks


#berlin #come #feeling #felt #germany

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


#both #corner #done #ends #here

Humor is just another defense against the universe.


— Mel Brooks


#against #another #defense #just #universe

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


— Mel Brooks


#presidents #their #wives

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


— Mel Brooks


#fly #given #god #tickets #us

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


— Mel Brooks


#cooks #essentially #his #moustache #nasty

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


— Mel Brooks


#bad taste #before #said #saying #should

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


— Mel Brooks


#comedy #just #life #literally #look






About Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks Quotes




Did you know about Mel Brooks?

He also began acting in summer stock in Red Bank New Jersey and did some radio work. Around this time he changed his professional name to "Mel Brooks" after being confused with the well-known Borscht Belt trumpet player Max Kaminsky. Brooks himself has a cameo as an alcoholic ex-serf who "yearns for the regular beatings of yesteryear.

His most well known films include The Producers Blazing Saddles Young Frankenstein Silent Movie High Anxiety and Spaceballs. Three of his films ranked in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy films of all-time all of which ranked in the top 20 of the list: Blazing Saddles at number 6 The Producers at number 11 and Young Frankenstein at number 13. He is to receive the 41st AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013.

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