I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
MEL BROOKSAnybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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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 a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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I wish I was better looking.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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