But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
MEL BROOKSAll 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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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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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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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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