There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
MEL BROOKSAnybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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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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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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