I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
MEL BROOKSYou’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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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.
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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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