If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKSIf you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKSWell, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
MEL BROOKSI’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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.
MEL BROOKSWhen you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
MEL BROOKSI only direct in self-defense.
MEL BROOKSI don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
MEL BROOKSA brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
MEL BROOKSNo, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
MEL BROOKSI wish I was better looking.
MEL BROOKSI don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
MEL BROOKSThe 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.
MEL BROOKSWe’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
MEL BROOKSIt’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
MEL BROOKSI’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
MEL BROOKSIf God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
MEL BROOKS