Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
MEL BROOKSBad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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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 wish I was better looking.
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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