I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
MEL BROOKSHe who hesitates is poor.
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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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Well, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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I wish I was better looking.
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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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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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