Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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 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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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