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.
MEL BROOKSLife literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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