I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
MEL BROOKSLife literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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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 don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Well, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.
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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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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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I wish I was better looking.
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You’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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