I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
MEL BROOKSThe 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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Well, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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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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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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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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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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.
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Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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