I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
MEL BROOKSWe’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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