My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
MEL BROOKSAs far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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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.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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