I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
MEL BROOKSMy job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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 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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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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