A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
MEL BROOKSIf God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Well, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I wish I was better looking.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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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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