What did Mel Brooks mean by: Hope for the best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We’re unrehearsed. - Mel Brooks Comedian, actor, filmmaker, and composer Copy
+ If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mel Brooks, Color, Rainbow, 0 - Mel Brooks Comedian, actor, filmmaker, and composer
+ If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mel Brooks, Country, President, Wife, 0 - Mel Brooks Comedian, actor, filmmaker, and composer
+ The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mel Brooks, Crazy, Finals, 0 - Mel Brooks Comedian, actor, filmmaker, and composer
+ If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mel Brooks, Dictator, Winning, 0 - Mel Brooks Comedian, actor, filmmaker, and composer
+ “Now thyself” is more important than “know thyself.” Feraz Zeid, September 18, 2023January 30, 2024, Mel Brooks, Important, Know Yourself, 0 - Mel Brooks Comedian, actor, filmmaker, and composer
+ Good taste is the enemy of comedy. Feraz Zeid, October 3, 2023December 26, 2023, Mel Brooks, Enemy, Taste, 0 - Mel Brooks Comedian, actor, filmmaker, and composer
+ Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump. Feraz Zeid, September 25, 2023December 24, 2023, Mel Brooks, Bumps, Heart, My Heart, 0 - Mel Brooks Comedian, actor, filmmaker, and composer
+ Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love. Feraz Zeid, August 13, 2023December 12, 2023, Mel Brooks, Fear, Love, 0 - Mel Brooks Comedian, actor, filmmaker, and composer
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
