When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
MEL BROOKSI’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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