He who hesitates is poor.
MEL BROOKSThese 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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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’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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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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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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