A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
MEL BROOKSI’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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 don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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