Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
MEL BROOKSYou got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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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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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 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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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I wish I was better looking.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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 don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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