I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
MEL BROOKSI’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.
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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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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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