If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKSAs long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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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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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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 Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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