Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKSThese 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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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I wish I was better looking.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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