Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
MEL BROOKSJudd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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 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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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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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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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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