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.
MEL BROOKSOh, 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.
MEL BROOKSLife literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
MEL BROOKSWe’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
MEL BROOKSI’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.
MEL BROOKSImmortality is a by-product of good work.
MEL BROOKSYou’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.
MEL BROOKSAll 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 BROOKSI only direct in self-defense.
MEL BROOKSI like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
MEL BROOKSI was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
MEL BROOKSAs far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
MEL BROOKSIf Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
MEL BROOKSI don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
MEL BROOKSNo, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
MEL BROOKSJudd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
MEL BROOKSThere’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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