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.
MEL BROOKSEverything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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