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.
MEL BROOKSAnybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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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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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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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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