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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.
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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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My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.
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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
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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.'
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The audience. They see the name Mel Brooks, they want something really funny. They don't want to be moved they don't want to be taught any lessons. [...] I get more letters for Twelve Chairs and Life Stinks than I get from any other movies, because people actually agree with the philosophy, or were moved, or they love the movie.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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The thing is to be brave and move the audience with you, instead of cater to the lowest common denominator, you know, slipping on a banana peel and falling on your ass. You got to move the audience a little further ahead in terms of their appreciation of what is comedy. It's complicated.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.
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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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You want me to admit I'm a four-foot, six-inch freckle-faced person of Jewish extraction? I admit it. All but the extraction. But being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
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Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.
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I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
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Never retire! Do what you do and keep doing it. But don't do it on Friday. Take Friday off. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, go fishing...Then Monday to Thursday, do what you've been doing all your life. My point is: Live full and don't retreat.
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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
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