If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKSIf you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKSWell, 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’.
MEL BROOKSIf God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
MEL BROOKSIf you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
MEL BROOKSWe’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
MEL BROOKSYou’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.
MEL BROOKSTragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKSAs far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
MEL BROOKSBut I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
MEL BROOKSI wish I was better looking.
MEL BROOKSI loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
MEL BROOKSIf Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
MEL BROOKSIt’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
MEL BROOKSBad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
MEL BROOKSWell, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
MEL BROOKSI love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
MEL BROOKS