Immortality is a by-product of good work.
MEL BROOKSHumor is just another defense against the universe.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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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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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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 wish I was better looking.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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 was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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