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.
MEL BROOKSI’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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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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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