Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKSA brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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