Mel Brooks Quotes

They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh.

They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be.

When faced with disaster, learn to laugh faster.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Without a sense of humor, I would have been gone a long time ago.

The more trauma and bad experiences you have, the more you are able to laugh on yourself and the situation.

If you can neither accept it or change it, try to laugh at it.

I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.

Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.

I'm someone who lived in a war for five years. I received bombs on my head every day of my childhood. Did that stop me from living? Did that stop me from laughing?

When I was growing up, I was obviously gay, and I got heckled every day of my life. The only way I knew how to survive was to make people laugh. If I could make them laugh, I wouldn't get hung in a locker for two hours. That's a blessing.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

Even in the depths of dreadful situations, there's usually something rather comic, or something you can laugh about afterwards, at least. So, I do look for the comedy in those things.

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We've all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we've all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that's a gift - to you and your audience.

Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

Humor is not a sign of weakness. In fact, humor can be your greatest asset in the face of tragedy.

A drunk truck driver ran over me. I was in a Volkswagen. It was horrible. It sounds like a cliche, but anything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I give a lot of credit to my dad, who was a very strong guy.

I find myself laughing at really bad situations.

Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there's a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girlfriend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain.

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

I used humor as survival, as a weapon and as comfort.