As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
MEL BROOKSI like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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I wish I was better looking.
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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 like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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