You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
MEL BROOKSA cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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I only direct in self-defense.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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