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.
MEL BROOKSI’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.
MEL BROOKSEverything 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.
MEL BROOKSA lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
MEL BROOKSIt’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
MEL BROOKSJudd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
MEL BROOKSIf presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
MEL BROOKSWhen you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
MEL BROOKSI don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
MEL BROOKSWe want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
MEL BROOKSRhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
MEL BROOKSI don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
MEL BROOKSWell, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
MEL BROOKSImmortality is a by-product of good work.
MEL BROOKSDom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
MEL BROOKSI was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
MEL BROOKSI wish I was better looking.
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