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 BROOKSHe who hesitates is poor.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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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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