I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
MEL BROOKSAs long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I wish I was better looking.
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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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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 know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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