If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
MEL BROOKSNo, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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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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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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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I’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.
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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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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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I only direct in self-defense.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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