Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers. Mel Brooks More Quotes by Mel Brooks More Quotes From 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 adultsboyskids When I was a little kid at home, I thought the whole world was Jewish. For years I thought Roosevelt was Jewish. I loved him. I thought of him as my father. I'm always stunned when I find out that people like Roosevelt and Tolstoy weren't Jewish. How could I love them so much? Mel Brooks homefatherkids I always thought it was great to be able to make people feel better. It was a little like being God. Mel Brooks feel-betterlittlespeople I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat. Mel Brooks couplesoldierwar I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances. Mel Brooks tastemindlong No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not. Mel Brooks creativeheartwriting I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front. Mel Brooks progressbehindsbelieve I've always loved songwriting, and I vowed to be a songwriter like Cole Porter when I was only 9 years old. Mel Brooks songwriterssongwritingyears Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it. Mel Brooks poeticgeniussteps My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible. Mel Brooks jobspeople All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security. Mel Brooks incheswifetwo I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up. Mel Brooks infantrycombatbridges The audience got jaded, they want a hit, they want a big success, and so you don't want to experiment because you say, well, I'll disappoint the audience, they may not like it, I better do something that I think is more commercial. Mel Brooks wantmaythinking Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go. Mel Brooks places-to-gocreativepeople Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy. Mel Brooks laughterjoymen I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter. Mel Brooks writing-songswritingsong I try to give my work everything I've got, because when you're dead or you're out of the business or you're in an old actors' home somewhere, if you've done a good job, your work will still be 16 years old and dancing and healthy and pirouetting and arabesquing all over the place. And they'll say, "That's who he is! He's not this decaying skeleton." Mel Brooks skeletonshomejobs Any man's greatness is a tribute to the nobility of all mankind, so when we celebrate the genius of [Leo] Tolstoy, we say, "Look! One of our boys made it! Look what we're capable of!" Mel Brooks greatnessmenboys I only direct in self-defense. Mel Brooks comedydefenseself The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you. Mel Brooks finalstestscrazy
