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.
MEL BROOKSA cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I wish I was better looking.
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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 in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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 don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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