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.
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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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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