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.
MEL BROOKSI 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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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