Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
MEL BROOKSWhen you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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