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 BROOKSWe want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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