A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
MEL BROOKSI don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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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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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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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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