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

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About Mel Brooks

Portrait of Mel Brooks

Melvin James Brooks (né Kaminsky; born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter and playwright. With a career spanning nine decades, he is known for a variety of successful farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of the few people to win the...

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If you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living.

Comedy is when you accidentally fall off a cliff and die. Tragedy is when I have a hangnail.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

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Indecision may or may not be my problem.

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Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

—Katharine Hepburn

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Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.

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My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

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When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

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