I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
MEL BROOKSEverything 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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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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 love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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I wish I was better looking.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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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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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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