243 Quotes by Mel Brooks


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    If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

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    Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need to replenish themselves with oxygen. So you laugh, you breathe, the blood runs, and everything is circulating. If you dont laugh, youll die.

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    Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.

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    I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.

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    I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.

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    I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

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    I've been taught ever since I was a kid that sex is filthy and forbidden, and that's the way I think it should be. The filthier and more forbidden it is, the more exciting it is.

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