I only direct in self-defense.
MEL BROOKSIf presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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I wish I was better looking.
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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 love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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