I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
MEL BROOKSIf God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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, 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 love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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I wish I was better looking.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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