If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
MEL BROOKSMy job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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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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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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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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