If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKSWe want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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I wish I was better looking.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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