I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
MEL BROOKSIf you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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