Mel Brooks Quotes

American comedian, filmmaker, and actor (born 1926)

Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky on 28 June 1926) is an American actor, director, and screenwriter.

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Birth Name: Melvin Kaminsky

Alternative Names: Melvin Brooks

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Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

Comedy is a very powerful component of life. It has the most to say about the human condition because if you laugh you can get by. You can struggle when things are bad if you have a sense of humor. Laughter is a protest scream against death, against the long goodbye. It’s a defense against unhappiness and depression.

Hope for the best, expect the worst. Life is a play, we're unrehearsed.

Dark Helmet : So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.

Sheriff Bart: Good mornin', ma'am! And isn't it a lovely mornin'?
Old Woman: Up yours, nigger!
Jim "The Waco Kid": [consoling Bart afterwards]: What did you expect? "Welcome, sonny"? "Make yourself at home"? "Marry my daughter"? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers … these are people of the land … the common clay of the New West. You know – morons.

Dark Helmet : What? You went over my helmet?

Laughter is a protest scream against death, against the long goodbye. It’s a defense against unhappiness and depression.

Other Street Merchant: Nothing, I have absolutely nothing for sale!

Comedy made me friends, big friends to protect me from bullies. I made them laugh, and you don’t hit the kid that makes you laugh.

Maxwell Smart: And I happen to know that at this very minute, seven Coast Guard cutters are converging on this boat. Would you believe it, seven? Mr. Big: I find that pretty hard to believe. Maxwell Smart: Would you believe six? Mr. Big: I don’t think so. Maxwell Smart: How about two cops in a rowboat?

Lizzie” or a “Flivver.

You know Cuneiform? You know Sanskrit? It's neither of those.

Will Scarlet Blinkin, fix your boobs, you look like a bleeding Picasso.

Sheriff Bart: Since I am your host and you are my guest what are your hobbies? What do you like to do in your free time?
Jim "The Waco Kid": Oh you know, play chess...screw.
Sheriff Bart: (Quickly) Let's play chess!

All I can say is that in my case comedy was keeping the joy of a happy childhood going strong.