I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
MEL BROOKSI don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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I wish I was better looking.
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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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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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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Well, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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