Failure Quote by Mel Brooks

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…

— Mel Brooks

Comedy is lively, comedy is joy, and that's what keeps us [people] going, we've got to look forward to little, little happiness's. Little, little…

— Mel Brooks

All right, I am often brash, rude and brutally direct. Someday I'm going to die and I don't have time to toe-dance around the…

— Mel Brooks

I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?

— Mel Brooks

My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.

— Mel Brooks

The audience. They see the name Mel Brooks, they want something really funny. They don't want to be moved; they don't want to be…

— Mel Brooks

I realised that all one really had to do was just observe. Observe and slightly exaggerate, and you had comedy. Instead of creating a…

— Mel Brooks

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

— Mel Brooks

Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs,…

— Mel Brooks

I knew it... I'm surrounded by assholes!

— Mel Brooks

I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.

— Mel Brooks

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

— Mel Brooks