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 BROOKSI don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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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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I only direct in self-defense.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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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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