I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
MEL BROOKSA 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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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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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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