Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
MEL BROOKSThese 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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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Well, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.
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