My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
MEL BROOKSI like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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Rhetoric 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.
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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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