When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
MEL BROOKSThe 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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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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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.
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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’.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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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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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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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’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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I wish I was better looking.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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