Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
MEL BROOKSTragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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