If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
MEL BROOKSIf you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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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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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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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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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’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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 don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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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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I only direct in self-defense.
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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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