He who hesitates is poor.
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 love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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