I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
MEL BROOKSYou got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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