I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
MEL BROOKSI was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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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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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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