I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
MEL BROOKSI know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
-
-
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.
MEL BROOKS -
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.
MEL BROOKS -
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’.
MEL BROOKS -
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
MEL BROOKS -
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKS -
When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
MEL BROOKS -
But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
MEL BROOKS -
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
MEL BROOKS -
We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
MEL BROOKS -
If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKS -
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.
MEL BROOKS -
If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
MEL BROOKS -
It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
MEL BROOKS -
I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
MEL BROOKS -
Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
MEL BROOKS