I wish I was better looking.
MEL BROOKSBut I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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