I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
MEL BROOKSI’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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 know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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