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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.
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American sex is generally straight. It happens at 11 o'clock Saturday night. In the rural areas, it happens at nine and it happens pretty fast. Got to get up the next morning, especially if there're kids. Can't make noise, either, wake the kids.
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Basically, I'm a writer. I'm the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen. So if you have a valuable idea, the only way to protect it is to direct it.
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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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Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.
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There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when they became adults, they would talk Yiddish like the adults did. There would be no reason to talk English anymore, because we would have made it.
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Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.
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We want to get people laughing we don't want to offend anybody.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
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Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen won an Emmy and Mel Brooks didn't! Niezsche was right! There is no God! There is no God!
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Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
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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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I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
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Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm interested, I listen. I watch a lot of new films, I see everything. I still read, I like books, whether they are old books, new books. I'm interested - you gotta stay interested!
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It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films.
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I have been lucky that some critics joined the mob in loving something I've done, or in appreciating it. I've been lucky. But most of the critics don't like what the people like. I think they have a very strange job, and they are meant to criticize.
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