Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks
Melvin James Brooksis an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, composer, songwriter and veteran. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for the early TV variety show Your Show of Shows. He became well known as part of the comedy duo with Carl Reiner in the comedy skit, The 2000 Year Old Man. He also created, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series, Get Smart,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth28 June 1926
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.
Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need to replenish themselves with oxygen. So you laugh, you breathe, the blood runs, and everything is circulating. If you dont laugh, youll die.
Sir, I have seen your film and it is vulgar! Madame, my film rises below vulgarity.
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
I've been taught ever since I was a kid that sex is filthy and forbidden, and that's the way I think it should be. The filthier and more forbidden it is, the more exciting it is.
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!'
I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.
Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.
I always thought it was great to be able to make people feel better. It was a little like being God.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you.
An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey.