I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
MEL BROOKSHumor is just another defense against the universe.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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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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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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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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I wish I was better looking.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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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 only direct in self-defense.
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