I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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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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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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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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