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 BROOKSEvery human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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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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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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