Mel Brooks Quotes


The Twelve Chairs is about the same thing. It's all about money or love. We know we need money, we know we have to get money, we know we have to hurt others to get money. But we don't know until maybe it's a little too late in life that love is the most important thing. Love, friendship, affection, bonhomie, whatever. Those are the only things that really count: to love and be loved.


Citations

Crick, Robert A., editor. Mel Brooks: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi, 2007, p. 52.

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Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks
  • Born: June 28, 1926
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Director, Writer, Actor, Comedian, Producer, Composer

Mel Brooks is an American director, writer, actor, comedian, producer, and composer. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comedic parodies. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show Your Show of Shows (1950–1954) alongside Woody Allen, Neil Simon, and Larry Gelbart. Together with Carl Reiner, he created the comic character The 2000 Year Old Man. He wrote, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series Get Smart, which ran from 1965 to 1970.