Mel Brooks Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Mel Brooks on Wise Famous Quotes.
I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.
Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.
I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
Comedy is protest. It's "I beg to differ," if you're fancy, or if you're Jewish, "Hey, listen to this!
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.
Some critics are emotionally desiccated, personally about as attractive as a year-old peach in a single girl's refrigerator.
I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.
An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey.
I always thought it was great to be able to make people feel better. It was a little like being God.
Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.
My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you god-damn genius.'
It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films.
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.
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.
I love spaghetti and sex, sometimes together. My dream of heaven is walking naked through fields of pasta fazool.
My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.
Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.
I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.
As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
There's not enough bad taste! I LOVE bad taste! I live for bad taste! I am the spokesman for bad taste!
All right, I am often brash, rude and brutally direct. Someday I'm going to die and I don't have time to toe-dance around the periphery of hatred.
The egg cream is psychologically the opposite of circumcision
it pleasurably reaffirms your Jewishness.
it pleasurably reaffirms your Jewishness.