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.
MEL BROOKSAll 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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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