I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
MEL BROOKSI know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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I only direct in self-defense.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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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’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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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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 have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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