Mel Brooks Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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I'm easily entertained.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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Women are sacred.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
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Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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I've triumphed over addiction.
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The evidence of our acceptance in the Beloved rises in proportion to our love, to our repentance, to our humility, to our faith, to our self-denial, to our delight in duty. Other evidence than this the Bible knows not God has not given.
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Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.
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Christmas Day itself hasn't always been great. My parents went abroad when I was very young, and I went to boarding school. We had a few Christmases before that - I remember a big sack of presents and Mummy cooking goose.
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We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.
