My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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