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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More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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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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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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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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