Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
MEL BROOKSNo, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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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’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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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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