I only direct in self-defense.
MEL BROOKSLook, 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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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 believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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