A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
MEL BROOKSEverything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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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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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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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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