If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKSMy job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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Well, 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’.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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