I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
MEL BROOKSI’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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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 Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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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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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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