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 BROOKSIt’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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 a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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