Quote

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.

Mel Brooks

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
Actor
Composer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Journalist
Librettist
Lyricist
Screenwriter
Soldier
Songwriter
Stage Actor
Brooklyn
New York
Melvin Brooks
Melvin Kaminsky
Sign
Short
Security
Taller
Wife
Fuse
Woman
Delayed
Two
Inch
Women
Inches
Marry

More quotes by Mel Brooks

Image
Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party!
Mel Brooks
Image
Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.
Mel Brooks
Image
It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films.
Mel Brooks
Image
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
Mel Brooks
Image
He who hesitates is poor.
Mel Brooks
Image
I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?
Mel Brooks
Image
My liveliness is based on an incredible fear of death. In order to keep death at bay, I do a lot of Yah! Yah! Yah! And death says, All right. He's too noisy and busy. I'll wait for someone who's sitting quietly, half asleep.
Mel Brooks
Image
I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.
Mel Brooks
Image
An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey.
Mel Brooks
Image
Directing is a terrible, anxious process. It's all collaboration, and if you have a dream, it's diluted very quickly by the slightest ineptness in any of your collaborators. They're supposed to help you, but too often they help you into your grave.
Mel Brooks
Image
My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.
Mel Brooks
Image
In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.
Mel Brooks
Image
I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
Mel Brooks
Image
THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD MAN'S SECRETS OF LONGEVITY 1. Don't run for a bus - there'll always be another. 2. Never, ever touch fried food. 3. Stay out of a Ferrari or any other small Italian car. 4. Eat fruit - a nectarine - even a rotten plum is good.
Mel Brooks
Image
I'm married to a beautiful and talented woman who can lift your spirits just by looking at you.
Mel Brooks
Image
Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.
Mel Brooks
Image
You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
Mel Brooks
Image
American sex is generally straight. It happens at 11 o'clock Saturday night. In the rural areas, it happens at nine and it happens pretty fast. Got to get up the next morning, especially if there're kids. Can't make noise, either, wake the kids.
Mel Brooks
Image
Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.
Mel Brooks
Image
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
Mel Brooks