I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
MEL BROOKSI don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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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.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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You’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.
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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.
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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 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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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