I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
MEL BROOKSI was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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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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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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’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 only direct in self-defense.
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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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