When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
MEL BROOKSBad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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Well, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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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 don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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