I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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Well, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.
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You’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.
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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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