A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
MEL BROOKSWhen you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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I wish I was better looking.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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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’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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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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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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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