If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKSRhetoric 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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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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.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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