I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
MEL BROOKSWe want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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