No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
MEL BROOKSLook, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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You’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.
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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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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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Well, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.
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