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 BROOKSNo, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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You’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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