Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
MEL BROOKSI don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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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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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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 lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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 only direct in self-defense.
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