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’.
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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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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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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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