Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
MEL BROOKSWell, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
MEL BROOKSIf you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
MEL BROOKSIf presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
MEL BROOKSI’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.
MEL BROOKSYou got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
MEL BROOKSOh, 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 BROOKSIf Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
MEL BROOKSLife literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
MEL BROOKSI’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
MEL BROOKSTragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKSEverything 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.
MEL BROOKSWe rest our case on the production numbers.
MEL BROOKSMy job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
MEL BROOKSI love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
MEL BROOKSThe 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 BROOKSYou’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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