A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
MEL BROOKSImmortality is a by-product of good work.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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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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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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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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 was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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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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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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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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Everything 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.
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I wish I was better looking.
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