If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
MEL BROOKSI wish I was better looking.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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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 don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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’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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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 like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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