Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
MEL BROOKS Immortality is a by-product of good work.
MEL BROOKS If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKS Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKS Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you've got to fla...
MEL BROOKS I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly w...
MEL BROOKS Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is h...
MEL BROOKS I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writ...
MEL BROOKS As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
MEL BROOKS Let
MEL BROOKS Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your a...
MEL BROOKS Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKS Humor is just another defense against the universe.
MEL BROOKS All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me...
MEL BROOKS Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But i...
MEL BROOKS A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up hi...
MEL BROOKS I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.
MEL BROOKS The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that neve...
MEL BROOKS I wish I was better looking.
MEL BROOKS You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
MEL BROOKS I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performanc...
MEL BROOKS But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
MEL BROOKS Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
MEL BROOKS A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We're all blessed...
MEL BROOKS As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mist...
MEL BROOKS You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yo...
MEL BROOKS If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
MEL BROOKS I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you ...
MEL BROOKS That's it baby, when you got it, flaunt it.
MEL BROOKS If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
MEL BROOKS Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
MEL BROOKS Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
MEL BROOKS Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to...
MEL BROOKS As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin...
MEL BROOKS Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
MEL BROOKS These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Brod...
MEL BROOKS Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect...
MEL BROOKS Humor is just another defense against the
universe.
MEL BROOKS If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKS If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country
MEL BROOKS He who hesitates is poor.
MEL BROOKS Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is...
MEL BROOKS I kept leaning on him and I finally said, 'Mel, this isn't fair.' So I asked him to come on board as...
MEL BROOKS The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that it's coming quick...
MEL BROOKS I was going to do the book and the music and the lyrics,
MEL BROOKS [Brooks, who plays a doctor in the film, feels laughter is indeed the best medicine.] If you don't l...
MEL BROOKS My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell.
MEL BROOKS I think people should buy 20 of them. Buy 20 and save a lot of them for Christmas presents. Who know...
MEL BROOKS There's no lightning. There's blood, sweat and tears. There's a good idea and there's 18 months of d...
MEL BROOKS Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
MEL BROOKS I've never been happier than when I was writing the musical score of The Producers. One song after a...
MEL BROOKS [December features the widely anticipated] All the Kings Men ... The Producers.
MEL BROOKS On directing movies: anybody can direct. There are only 11 good write
MEL BROOKS In the movie, I wrote the line 'We might have a position for you.' ... And Tom added, 'We might have...
MEL BROOKS I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
MEL BROOKS Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, it’s an involuntary explosi...
MEL BROOKS Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said
MEL BROOKS You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
MEL BROOKS Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap y...
MEL BROOKS I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
MEL BROOKS Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd ra...
MEL BROOKS We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.
MEL BROOKS Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, it’s an involuntary explosio...
MEL BROOKS I know I'm not everybody's cup of tea. I'm just me.
MEL B When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.
MEL B I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.
MEL TORME It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.
MEL GIBSON It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.
MEL GIBSON The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.
MEL LAZARUS I
MEL GIBSON It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority fo...
MEL MARTINEZ I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.
MEL GIBSON Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a l...
MEL GIBSON After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want...
MEL GIBSON It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistake...
MEL GIBSON The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a...
MEL GIBSON I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terror...
MEL GIBSON I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's...
MEL GIBSON I did not want to lose sight of the fact that for every criminal I have to deal with, no matter how ...
MELISA MEL For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for d...
MEL CARNAHAN For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with...
MEL CARNAHAN Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare reci...
MEL CARNAHAN I don't have to be working every moment. Why turn something good into a hard job? It's more ...
MEL GIBSON Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within...
MEL MARTINEZ What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them i...
MEL GIBSON Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I do...
MEL TORME Forty-two years ago, I came to America from communist Cuba so I might have a better way of life, a f...
MEL MARTINEZ There could be no better time to fully integrate Infinity with Viacom's tremendous portfolio of ...
MEL KARMAZIN And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to...
MEL TILLIS We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil soc...
MEL MARTINEZ I think the 'Lethal Weapon' movies contain my favorite performances. It sounds really crummy...
MEL GIBSON But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stutt...
MEL TILLIS We are aware that many national farm organizations are putting forth various plans to provide both s...
MEL CARNAHAN There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on whic...
MEL TORME I think digital will displace film, yes. We're talking about digital as a thing of the future, b...
MEL GIBSON I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion...
MEL GIBSON There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function wit...
MEL GIBSON I like going in to different styles of acting and exploring stuff I haven't done before.
MEL GIBSON When we're playing well together we just want to keep getting the ball. You just keep feeding off it...
MEL THOMAS My mum enrolled me in this free dance class because I had so much energy in the night-time, and she ...
MEL B Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if ...
MEL GIBSON We know what it's about and Fort Macleod has been there a few years ago too, so they know what it's ...
MEL VOLLMAN Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.
MEL GIBSON I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it&...
MEL GIBSON Satellite radio is very hot and is continuing on pace to be one of the fastest-growing products in t...
MEL KARMAZIN I don't think we're crumbling as a civilization, but this is not our finest hour, and it'...
MEL GIBSON Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation's Governors highest p...
MEL CARNAHAN Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, w...
MEL CARNAHAN But I've got a lot of ideas, I bought me a ranch in Florida and I still have my farm in Ashland ...
MEL TILLIS I'm not sure I'm going to retire. That's all I can say. But there's another part of that.
MEL STOTTLEMYRE We're all dying. We're all in the process of oxidizing. Everyone of us is in the process of ...
MEL GIBSON What I've tried to do . . . is create a whole model that got away from test scores and avoided label...
MEL LEVINE That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of ...
MEL GIBSON I think CD is like the glue that keeps it all together. She?s the one that makes sure everybody list...
MEL THOMAS Sometimes a player of his caliber goes through a long dry spell. He's worked really hard and fought ...
MEL BLASI The Lone Ranger is going to be one of those iconic characters that never rides off into the sunset. ...
MEL ODOM And I had to take care of a little dog too named Suzy. It was the promoter's wife's - Judy L...
MEL TILLIS I think we're experiencing a resurgence of fantasy-type conventions in general because people wa...
MEL ODOM I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.
MEL MARTINEZ I don't want to come to Washington to be just another vote. I want to lead on issues that are import...
MEL MARTINEZ Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 1...
MEL MARTINEZ And I got to know Red Foley well. And I got to know Lefty really well, he was a great guy.
MEL TILLIS I'm pretty fit, naturally. I do moderate exercise, and I try to eat pretty well and I think it h...
MEL GIBSON I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger. I now boastfully say that I have a hi...
MEL GIBSON I'm just me. I'm just very opinionated. I react to whatever I see. If it's good, it'...
MEL B Acting feels different. I'm not sure exactly what that is, but it used to mean a lot more. Maybe...
MEL GIBSON Victims”, by definition, are those that have just experienced a trauma of some sort. They are goi...
MELISA MEL I just came out ready to shoot. I just found myself open a lot and I just came in knowing that I nee...
MEL THOMAS We were on the ice on Tuesday and just had team pictures and a little bit of a chat about what's hap...
MEL VOLLMAN There is a lack of representation from this side of the Monterey Bay -- Seaside, Marina, Sand City, ...
MEL MASON We were walking along the Carson River, and I was on the lookout for rocks when I saw it laying ther...
MEL TINKER I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The ...
MEL GIBSON Whose God Is It Anyway?
MEL GIBSON Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
MEL GIBSON I tell you what really turns my toes up: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough...
MEL GIBSON A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family...
MEL GIBSON They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom.
MEL GIBSON And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of ...
MEL TILLIS And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Spr...
MEL TILLIS I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.
MEL TILLIS I remember li'l ol' Hank Jr. - he was just a baby back in them days, you know - but he used ...
MEL TILLIS Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're ...
MEL GIBSON In 1961, when Maris broke Babe Ruth's record, he wasn't intentionally walked once. Mickey batted aft...
MEL ALLEN It was Spanish Jewry, not Spanish jewelry, that paid for Columbus' voyage of discovery.
MEL WACKS On her pages sacred cows become blustering pachyderms.
MEL GUSSOW I didn't let it interfere with the way I did my job, ... I felt it (wore) a little bit on my thinkin...
MEL STOTTLEMYRE He wasn't overpowering like he usually is. He wasn't throwing as hard, but he pitched a smart game.
MEL GARDNER It's great that after 700 years William Wallace has finally had a proper burial. He did so much for ...
MEL GIBSON You've seen the way the club played at the end of the year. A lot of other clubs with similar proble...
MEL STOTTLEMYRE I know the only reason I made it anywhere in hockey was because I was a fighter. I know that was my ...
MEL ANGELSTAD You can speculate what's going to happen, but upsets happen in sports all the time.
MEL ANGELSTAD Toughness played a much bigger role on those teams. We had eight legitimate fighters. I helped with ...
MEL ANGELSTAD I've got nothing to prove anymore. If they want to fight, I'll fight and I'll get it done. I use my ...
MEL ANGELSTAD The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.
MEL GIBSON Bring a child and ignore your inhibitions.
MEL GUSSOW After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of that one [what wome...
MEL GIBSON That's a huge number. We went through a lot this season. This one, without question, is the sweetest...
MEL STOTTLEMYRE I guarantee no one expected them to come this far.
MEL THOMAS to inspire, not offend.
MEL GIBSON She's a lot like (singer) Anne Murray. She's fabulous.
MEL CLARK It's set before the Conquest, so there are no European faces, and we are using mostly indigenous peo...
MEL GIBSON You have been assigned this mountain so that you can show others it can be moved.
MEL ROBBINS Unless we make sure that everyone is participating in this great economic expansion and until we ens...
MEL MARTINEZ Idly, Wick wondered if he should feel insulted. Then he decided there really wasn't any room for con...
MEL ODOM I just spoke to Moose, ... He's been doing his throwing out there, keeping tabs on what's going on. ...
MEL STOTTLEMYRE The problem is this is so politically incorrect. The public is still dealing with the pre-Roe ethic ...
MEL FEIT Kids wanted to be Kirby Puckett. Everybody loved the small guy, the bald head, the bulging stomach, ...
MEL ANTONEN One of the first things I remember was the night he hit that home run in Game 6 of the 1991 World Se...
MEL ANTONEN Taking her out of her game makes their team struggle a lot more.
MEL THOMAS They came out and played really hard. They definitely outworked us on the boards.
MEL THOMAS I think we needed that. We were just playing with them the whole game, we had to break away at some ...
MEL THOMAS Coach was not happy with us. He told us we just need to flush this (game) down the toilet and forget...
MEL THOMAS I love it when they can come. They're all Cincinnati fans, so it's pretty interesting.
MEL THOMAS We just have to play 20 minutes and follow it up with another 20 minutes in the second half.
MEL THOMAS I think coach always challenges you when you're not doing well and I think she just took the challen...
MEL THOMAS What really interests me about Keene is how similar it is to Buffalo State.
MEL NETZHAMMER We just take it personally. This girl is the leading scorer in the country and you don't want her to...
MEL THOMAS My brother, Rusty and and his wife, Sherry, named their child after him.
MEL ANTONEN I wanted to develop a way that they could visualize and see how a message could be conveyed using fo...
MEL MCDONALD I think it was very unprofessional. When you're getting your butt kicked, sometimes you have to take...
MEL STOTTLEMYRE Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them
MEL GIBSON I think everything is pretty well preordained - even your mistakes.
MEL GIBSON Does any Watcher ever know that he is suddenly watching the Slayer until that moment is announced to...
MEL ODOM And Don Meredith told me he was coming.
MEL RENFRO You've got fists; we've got guns.
MEL SACHS You can build a zoo virtually anywhere, but you cannot rebuild a park. The residents in our neighbor...
MEL PINS I'm not retiring.
MEL TILLIS When I have lunch with those guys, they're paying for my lunch. I'm not paying for their lunch.
MEL KARMAZIN Sprint PCS' wireless network is one of the last keys filling one of the last holes in MCI's network.
MEL MARTEN Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.
MEL FERRER If I've still got my pants on in the second scene, I think they've sent me the wrong script.
MEL GIBSON In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done.
MEL SMITH We believe that in offering shares of the new Infinity Broadcasting, we will unlock the value of our...
MEL KARMAZIN There could be no better time to fully integrate Infinity with Viacom's tremendous portfolio of asse...
MEL KARMAZIN How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to bei...
MEL TORME I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of t...
MEL TORME I had a blast writing the Ranger in 'The Great Dinosaur Rush' for the Moonstone collection. ...
MEL ODOM many of the individuals we see are heavily committed to something we call 'fun.'
MEL LEVINE We're seeing an epidemic of people who are having a hard time making the transition to work — kids...
MEL LEVINE We teach the child about his own strengths and weaknesses, and we give words they need for the thing...
MEL LEVINE