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.
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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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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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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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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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