If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
MEL BROOKSAs far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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