I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
MEL BROOKSWell, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I wish I was better looking.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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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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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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