Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
MEL BROOKSTragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
-
-
It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
MEL BROOKS -
I only direct in self-defense.
MEL BROOKS -
But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
MEL BROOKS -
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.
MEL BROOKS -
If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
MEL BROOKS -
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.
MEL BROOKS -
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
MEL BROOKS -
No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
MEL BROOKS -
We rest our case on the production numbers.
MEL BROOKS -
I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
MEL BROOKS -
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
MEL BROOKS -
A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
MEL BROOKS -
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.
MEL BROOKS -
I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
MEL BROOKS -
I wish I was better looking.
MEL BROOKS