If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
MEL BROOKSEvery human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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I wish I was better looking.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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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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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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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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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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