Mel Brooks Quotes

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
Mel Brooks

Mission, Burn, Torch

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.
Mel Brooks

Great, Stage, Musical

I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.
Mel Brooks

Rock, Dangerous, Chris

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.
Mel Brooks

Love, Writing, Songs

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
Mel Brooks

War, Soldier, Last

I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
Mel Brooks

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.
Mel Brooks

Great, Bad, Long

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.
Mel Brooks

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
Mel Brooks

Win, Stand, Trade

Immortality is a by-product of good work.
Mel Brooks

It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.
Mel Brooks

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
Mel Brooks

Good, Pretty, Both

'Mad About You' was very fun.
Mel Brooks

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
Mel Brooks

Job, Possible, Entertain

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
Mel Brooks

Write, Themselves, Almost

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.
Mel Brooks

True, Short, Rather

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
Mel Brooks

Character, Made, Story

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
Mel Brooks

Film, Story, Army

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.
Mel Brooks

Men, Done, Trying

We rest our case on the production numbers.
Mel Brooks

Rest, Production, Numbers

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'.
Mel Brooks

Crazy, Fun, Simple

When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.
Mel Brooks

Feeling, Felt, Okay

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Nationality: American

Born: June 28, 1926

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