If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKSWe want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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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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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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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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 got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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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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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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