Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
MEL BROOKSThere’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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