I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Well, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.
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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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I wish I was better looking.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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