If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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I wish I was better looking.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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