When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
MEL BROOKSYou got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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