It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
MEL BROOKSI only direct in self-defense.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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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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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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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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I wish I was better looking.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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