Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
MEL BROOKSWhen you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
-
-
We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
MEL BROOKS -
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
MEL BROOKS -
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.
MEL BROOKS -
But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
MEL BROOKS -
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.
MEL BROOKS -
When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
MEL BROOKS -
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
MEL BROOKS -
My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
MEL BROOKS -
If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
MEL BROOKS -
It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
MEL BROOKS -
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
MEL BROOKS -
Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
MEL BROOKS -
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.
MEL BROOKS -
The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
MEL BROOKS -
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
MEL BROOKS