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" There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere. "
Mel Brooks
Film
Me
Somewhere
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" No, no, the songs write themselves, almost. "
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" I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel. "
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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, 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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" 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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" 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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" He who hesitates is poor. "
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" I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front. "
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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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" 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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Ideas
Support
" 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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" 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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Meet
Me
" We rest our case on the production numbers. "
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Case
Numbers
" Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. "
Mel Brooks
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Bad
Taste
" Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy. "
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Laughter
Size
" But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality. "
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Bad Taste
Taste
Bad
" I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn. "
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Mission
Torch
" I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous. "
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" If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none. "
Mel Brooks
Beat
None
Got
" Immortality is a by-product of good work. "
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Immortality
Work
" I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter. "
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Love
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Writing
" My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible. "
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Out
Most
Job
" You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it. "
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Be Brave
You
Risk
" We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody. "
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People
Get
Anybody
" 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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Rather
Jewish
Because
" Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers. "
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Direct
Good
Only
" I wish I was better looking. "
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Looking
Better
I Wish
" All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security. "
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" Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, 'Star Wars', and 'Star Trek'. "
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