If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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 was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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I wish I was better looking.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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’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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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