My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
MEL BROOKSI don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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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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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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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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