Mel Brooks Quotes
Most popular Mel Brooks Quotes
Immortality is a by-product of good work.
Humor is but another weapon against the universe.
Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.
Tragedy is if I cut my finger. Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
And, of course, with the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth—the critic.
You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
These are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons.
Some critics are emotionally desiccated, personally about as attractive as a year-old peach in a single girl's refrigerator.
Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through his mind on its way to the page.
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 within him.
