Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.
Mel Brooks
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Wanted
Way
Good
Entertain
Badly
Kept
Show
Business
Shows
More quotes by Mel Brooks
That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.
Mel Brooks
I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.
Mel Brooks
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
I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.
Mel Brooks
Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
Mel Brooks
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
Mel Brooks
I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
Mel Brooks
I only direct in self-defense.
Mel Brooks
We rest our case on the production numbers.
Mel Brooks
Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
Mel Brooks
In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.
Mel Brooks
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.
Mel Brooks
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
Mel Brooks
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
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
Mel Brooks
I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get.
Mel Brooks
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.
Mel Brooks
Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.
Mel Brooks
THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD MAN'S SECRETS OF LONGEVITY 1. Don't run for a bus - there'll always be another. 2. Never, ever touch fried food. 3. Stay out of a Ferrari or any other small Italian car. 4. Eat fruit - a nectarine - even a rotten plum is good.
Mel Brooks
Being brave is being scared and worried and still doing it [what you do]. Because if you're just a wacko, a mashugana, a crazy guy, then you're not brave, your nuts!
Mel Brooks
