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.
MEL BROOKSNo, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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Well, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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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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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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