But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
MEL BROOKSBut I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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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 was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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 don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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