Quote #58
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
More from Mel Brooks
- Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
- Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate …
- Excuse me, is this England? (while in a Hitler costume, after crash landing in England at the height of the Battle of Britian)
- Humor is just another defense against the universe.
- I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
- [on ancient poetry] Nog Nog! Mkellen bebog! V'luch Matuch Maluch M'tog!
- If I got a paper cut, that's a tragedy. If you fell down an open manhole and died, that's comedy.
- It's Wheird, there's an H in there. Gotta hit that H otherwise they think I'm some sort of a kook!