Quote

Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.

Mel Brooks

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
Actor
Composer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Journalist
Librettist
Lyricist
Screenwriter
Soldier
Songwriter
Stage Actor
Brooklyn
New York
Melvin Brooks
Melvin Kaminsky
Ill
Heart
Whats
Bump
Bumps

More quotes by Mel Brooks

Image
Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. My message to the world is 'Let's swing, sing, shout, make noise! Let's not mimic death before our time comes! Let's be wet and noisy!'
Mel Brooks
Image
That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.
Mel Brooks
Image
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
Mel Brooks
Image
Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.
Mel Brooks
Image
If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
Mel Brooks
Image
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
Mel Brooks
Image
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
Image
Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
Mel Brooks
Image
One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.
Mel Brooks
Image
We want to get people laughing we don't want to offend anybody.
Mel Brooks
Image
My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell.
Mel Brooks
Image
Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.
Mel Brooks
Image
If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
Mel Brooks
Image
Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through his mind on its way to the page.
Mel Brooks
Image
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.
Mel Brooks
Image
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.
Mel Brooks
Image
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.'
Mel Brooks
Image
Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.
Mel Brooks
Image
Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
Mel Brooks
Image
I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
Mel Brooks