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" I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter. "
Mel Brooks
Love
I Love
Writing
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" It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't. "
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Got
Either
" 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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Sweet
Know
" I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn. "
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" If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country. "
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Country
Presidents
" 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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Cinema
Movies
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" He who hesitates is poor. "
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Hesitates
Poor
" You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it. "
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You
Risk
" Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy. "
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Laughter
Size
" We rest our case on the production numbers. "
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Rest
Case
Numbers
" My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible. "
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Out
Most
Job
" 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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Know
Like
See
" 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, 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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Jump
Life
Look
" But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality. "
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Bad Taste
Taste
Bad
" I wish I was better looking. "
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Looking
Better
I Wish
" I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances. "
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Comedy
Accept
Long
" Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius. "
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Short
Say
Normal
" I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel. "
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Like
Me
Army
" 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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Far
Mean
Me
" 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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Rather
Jewish
Because
" Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love. "
Mel Brooks
Based
Fear
Everything
" If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively. "
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You
Got
Living
" There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere. "
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Film
Me
Somewhere
" 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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Win
Run
People
" I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat. "
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Soldier
Months
Last
" Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director. "
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Both
Producer
Pretty
" I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films. "
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Loved
Horror
Horror Films
" 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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Women
Wife
Short
" When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin. "
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You
Always
Come
" Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. "
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You
Die