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 BROOKSI was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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I wish I was better looking.
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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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