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.
MEL BROOKSImmortality is a by-product of good work.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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I’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.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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All 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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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I wish I was better looking.
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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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