There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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 want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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