I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
MEL BROOKSI don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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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 only direct in self-defense.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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I wish I was better looking.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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