Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
MEL BROOKSI was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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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 rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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