I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
MEL BROOKSThe 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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I wish I was better looking.
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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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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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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