Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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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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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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