I only direct in self-defense.
MEL BROOKSIf God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I wish I was better looking.
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