Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
MEL BROOKSIf you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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Look, 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.
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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