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.
MEL BROOKSIf presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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 was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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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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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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