I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
MEL BROOKSAnybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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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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