But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
MEL BROOKSYou’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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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.
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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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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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 was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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