You’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 BROOKSMy job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I wish I was better looking.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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