Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
MEL BROOKSTragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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