But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
MEL BROOKSWhen you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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