I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
MEL BROOKSA cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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