I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
MEL BROOKSWe want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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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 like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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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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