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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.
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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!'
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
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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 believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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I love [Nikolai] Gogol's great eye for idiot behavior. Gogol said that life is so tragic, so stupendously sad that we'd better laugh a lot and enjoy ourselves. You either get a sense of humor going or you go under.
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I'm married to a beautiful and talented woman who can lift your spirits just by looking at you.
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If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.
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That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.
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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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In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.
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Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.
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When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the main characters - what they need, what they want, what they should do. That's what gets the story going. You can't just have action, you've got to find out what the characters want. And then they must grow, they must go somewhere.
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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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I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.
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Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.
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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.
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Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.
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