If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
MEL BROOKSIf presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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Well, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.
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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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 don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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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 you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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