If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
MEL BROOKSI was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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