If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
MEL BROOKSIf God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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I wish I was better looking.
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