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.
MEL BROOKSThese 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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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