Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
MEL BROOKSThere’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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I wish I was better looking.
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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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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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