I only direct in self-defense.
MEL BROOKSImmortality is a by-product of good work.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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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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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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