If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
MEL BROOKSI loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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He who hesitates is poor.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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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 wish I was better looking.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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