A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
MEL BROOKSI was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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 God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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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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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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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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