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.
MEL BROOKSHumor is just another defense against the universe.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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