Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
MEL BROOKSAnybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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