Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
MEL BROOKSI like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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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’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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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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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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