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.
MEL BROOKSEverything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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 don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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