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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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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