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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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’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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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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