You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
MEL BROOKSIf you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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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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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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I wish I was better looking.
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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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