I wish I was better looking.
MEL BROOKSI love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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He who hesitates is poor.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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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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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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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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