Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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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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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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 God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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