Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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You’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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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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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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