It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films. Mel Brooks More Quotes by Mel Brooks More Quotes From Mel Brooks I usually start with the words. The rhythm of the words gives me the rhythm of the song, and then I look for the musical highlights in it to carry it. Mel Brooks musicalsonggiving Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart. Mel Brooks just-beingsmartstupid When we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman were waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed. Mel Brooks mosquitoessittingwaiting Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party! Mel Brooks nazipartystupid 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 geniusdonehands 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. Mel Brooks actorswritingtrying 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 jobspeoplethinking 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 neurosiswindpeople Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance. Mel Brooks comedydoepeople Jewish women are very exciting, as exciting sexually as any other group. Even so, my advice to a young man marrying a Jewish girl would be to have three and a half years of foreplay. Of course, most girls in every group are reserved about getting down to it. They don't usually do it right away. But once they do it, women are bananas. They don't wanna do it, you can't make them do it, there's no way they'll do it - but once they do it, they don't let you alone. Mel Brooks girlmenyears You cannot have fun with anything that you don't love or admire or respect. Mel Brooks having-funadmirefun Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you. Mel Brooks comedytragedyhappens 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. Mel Brooks sense-of-humoreyelaughing I'm always stunned when I find out people like Roosevelt and Tolstoy weren't Jewish. How could I love them so much? Mel Brooks stunnedpeople I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood. Mel Brooks imbalancesugarblood I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know. Mel Brooks admirerentertainingmy-own 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. Mel Brooks wittylifefunny One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder. Mel Brooks lambsone-dayrabbits Immortality is a by-product of good work. Mel Brooks immortalitygood-workproducts It's good to be the king. Mel Brooks kings
