Immortality is a by-product of good work.
MEL BROOKSImmortality is a by-product of good work.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
-
-
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.
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 -
You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
MEL BROOKS -
Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
MEL BROOKS -
I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
MEL BROOKS -
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.
MEL BROOKS -
He who hesitates is poor.
MEL BROOKS -
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
MEL BROOKS -
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.
MEL BROOKS -
I only direct in self-defense.
MEL BROOKS -
I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
MEL BROOKS -
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 -
But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
MEL BROOKS -
It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
MEL BROOKS -
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.
MEL BROOKS