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.
MEL BROOKSI only direct in self-defense.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I wish I was better looking.
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