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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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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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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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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