Mel Brooks Quotes

Melvin Kaminsky on June 28, 1926

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

Who's the dummy writing this show?!

As the voice over for a small curly haired man in a series of cartoons for The Electric Company, also repeated at the end of the Electric Company record.

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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

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— Mel Brooks, The 2,000 Year Old Man (1961)

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She is one of the most talented people that ever lived. I mean, either in stand-up comedy, or acting, or whatever you want, you can't beat Madeline Kahn.

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— Mel Brooks, reported in Tom Vallance, (December 6, 1999) "Obituary: Madeline Kahn", The Independent

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Lonestar: That's all we needed, a Druish Princess!

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— In the director's commentary Brooks states: I'm both proud and ashamed of that line.

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Excuse me, is this England?

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— While in a Adolf Hitler costume, after crash landing in England at the height of the Battle of Britain.

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

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